Cybersecurity
Is the State Department Reorganization Undermining Cyber Diplomacy?
Garrett Hinck Tue, Oct 3, 2017, 3:32 PM
The Trump administration seems to want it both ways on cybersecurity policy. On one hand, the White House has ordered the State Department to study and report on the United States’s “international engagement strategy” for cyber issues, signalling it takes the issue seriously. Yet Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s ongoing State Department reorganization hobbles U.S. cyber diplomacy by downgrading the central coordination office for international outreach on cyber issues.