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CISA staffers expect Trump to spurn efforts to raise the tech industry's security baseline. "Compliance efforts like secure-by-design may not have the support that they currently benefit from," one employee said. Also at risk: Election security aid and incident reporting rules.

As a U.S. cyber official put it to me of Trump's team, "They do not think it's the role of the US government to make [the] private sector act in a certain way."

On election security, the cyber official noted that Trump's pick to lead DHS (which oversees CISA), Kristi Noem, is a 2020 election conspiracy theorist. "I have a lot of questions about what happens there," the official said.