Cybersecurity Dive July 22, 2025
A plan to transfer cybersecurity and resilience responsibilities to states could have major unintended consequences.
As the U.S. government prepares to decrease its cybersecurity support for critical infrastructure operators, the organizations that defend those networks are preparing for more vulnerabilities, more hacks and more damage.
President Donald Trump’s quest to reduce the federal role in infrastructure cyber resilience — part of his broader push to shrink the government and slash the services it offers — will exacerbate already alarming cybersecurity weaknesses throughout the nation’s hospitals, ports, railways and other vital systems, according to industry leaders and cyber experts.
Trump’s chaotic government overhaul has already undermined essential partnerships between infrastructure operators and federal agencies, as Cybersecurity Dive reported recently. Now, the...







