AXIOS July 2, 2024
Sam Sabin

The U.S. Supreme Court has turned the Biden administration’s plans to clean up critical infrastructure’s cyber hygiene inside out.

Why it matters: Critical infrastructure organizations have failed to implement basic security practices like multifactor authentication on their own — leaving them easy targets for attacks without new regulations.

Driving the news: The Supreme Court on Friday overturned the 40-year-old “Chevron deference” doctrine, which gave legal preference to executive agencies to interpret the laws they’re tasked with enforcing.

  • Now Congress and the courts are in charge of deciding how agencies interpret and enforce both existing and future statutes.

Between the lines: It’s a nail in the coffin for an executive branch-led strategy that attempted to require many organizations to...

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