The Supreme Court decision to rescind agencies’ powers could hurt cyber regulations, experts warn

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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