Breaking Down the New National Cybersecurity Strategy

About this episode

The episode discusses the new national cybersecurity strategy and its key pillars with a focus on offensive operations, federal system updates, and critical infrastructure protection.

The Trump administration has released a national cybersecurity strategy that commits to strengthening defenses through six core pillars: employing more offensive cyber operations, streamlining regulations, modernizing and protecting federal networks, securing critical infrastructure, leading in new technologies, and developing talent. In this episode, Rob Sheldon, Sr. Director of Public Policy and Strategy at CrowdStrike, joins Adam and Cristian for a deep dive into three of the pillars that are top of mind for them: offensive cyber operations, updating federal systems, and protecting critical infrastructure. They discuss why these are difficult problems to solve and key considerations for how to approach them, including relevant threat activity and the involvement of the private sector. Though they could have talked about this for hours, this is a busy team! Check out the full cybersecurity strategy text for more details. [https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/President-Trumps-Cyber-Strategy-for-America.pdf] Interested in government cybersecurity? Register here for Fal.Con Gov 2026, taking place March 18 in Washington, D.C…

People in this episode

Hosts: Adam, Cristian

Guest: Rob Sheldon

Topics covered

• national cybersecurity strategy
• offensive cyber operations
• federal systems modernization
• critical infrastructure protection
• private sector involvement
• cyber threat activity

Keywords

• cybersecurity
• cyber operations
• federal networks
• critical infrastructure
• threat activity
• private sector
• cyber strategy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CrowdStrike, Trump administration

Books & works: President Trump's Cyber Strategy for America

Places: Washington, D.C.

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