Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation's Cybersecurity and Amending Executive Order 13694 and Executive Order 14144
Honest Title:
Cyber Order: NSS Exemptions, Sanctions Shift, Security Concerns
Summary
Amends EOs 14144 & 13694 to refocus US cyber efforts. Names China, Russia, Iran, NK as threats. Updates deadlines for NIST standards, quantum crypto, AI security, & IoT labeling. Narrows sanctions authority to target only foreign persons. This order strategically recalibrates federal cybersecurity initiatives, explicitly naming key nation-state adversaries. It sets new, sometimes more concrete, timelines for technical standards (NIST), preparing for future threats (Quantum), AI integration, and supply chain security (IoT labeling via FAR). The significant change limiting cyber sanctions under EO 13694 to only *foreign* persons could be viewed as either clarifying jurisdiction or reducing accountability for domestic actors complicit in cyber-attacks.