By Kevin Townsend on September 07, 2017
In August, eight out of 28 members of President Trump’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) resigned — seven en masse on the day before publication of the council’s draft report ‘Addressing Urgent Cyber Threats to Critical Infrastructure’, and an eighth at the end of the same week. These resignations beg an important question: what do the president’s own advisors think of his approach to the security of America’s critical infrastructure?
A resignation letter from the former NIAC members gives some clues: “Your actions have threatened the security of the homeland I took an oath to protect… You have given insufficient attention to the growing threats to the cybersecurity of the critical systems upon which all Americans depend, including those impacting the systems supporting our democratic election process.”
The draft report published the following day, but clearly not endorsed by the resignees, provides further clues. Sqrrl director Matt Zanderigo had two major issues with it. Firstl, the majority of recommendations are not new; and second, the recommendations are voluntary. Most security experts do not believe that voluntary proposals work — they need to be enforced. Business leaders, however, tend to like proposals to be voluntary because they can be implemented, or not, with the minimum disruption to the busines
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