PYMNTS.com December 15, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly looking for ways to get tougher on cyberattackers.

That’s according to U.S. Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., Trump’s choice to serve as national security adviser. Speaking to CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday (Dec. 15), Waltz said the government needed to stop focusing so much on shoring up its cyberdefense measures.

“We need to start going on the offense and start imposing, I think, higher costs and consequences to private actors and nation-state actors that continue to steal our data, that continue to spy on us,” Waltz said.

He added that the American tech industry could also play a role in helping improve U.S. cyberdefenses against hackers that “are literally putting cyber time bombs on our...

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