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Executive Order 14306
Sustaining Select Efforts To Strengthen the Nation's Cybersecurity and Amending Executive Order 13694 and Executive Order 14144
Signed June 6, 2025, printed at 90 FR 24723. 3 sections of substance, 1,762 words.
This order trims an earlier order on computer safety. Some parts are kept and others dropped.
Sec. 1.
Amendments to Executive Order 14144. Executive Order 14144 of January 16, 2025 (Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation's Cybersecurity), is hereby amended by: (a) striking subsections 2(a)-(b) and redesignating subsections 2(c), 2(d), and 2(e) as subsections 2(a), 2(b), and 2(c), respectively; (b) striking the first sentence of subsection 2(e); (c) striking subsections 3(a)-(b) and redesignating subsections 3(c), 3(d), and 3(e) as subsections 3(a), 3(b), and 3(c), respectively; (d) striking from subsection 3(c) the phrase ``In Executive Order 14028, I directed the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish procedures to immediately share threat information to strengthen the collective defense of Department of Defense and civilian networks.''; (e) striking from subsection 3(c)(i)(A) the word ``novel''; (f) striking subsection 4(b)(iv); (g)
Amendments to Executive Order 14144. Executive Order 14144 of January 16, 2025 (Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation's Cybersecurity), is hereby amended by: (a) striking subsections 2(a)-(b) and redesignating subsections 2(c), 2(d), and 2(e) as subsections 2(a), 2(b), and 2(c), respectively; (b) striking the first sentence of subsection 2(e); (c) striking subsections 3(a)-(b) and redesignating subsections 3(c), 3(d), and 3(e) as subsections 3(a), 3(b), and 3(c), respectively; (d) striking from subsection 3(c) the phrase ``In Executive Order 14028, I directed the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish procedures to immediately share threat information to strengthen the collective defense of Department of Defense and civilian networks.''; (e) striking from subsection 3(c)(i)(A) the word ``novel''; (f) striking subsection 4(b)(iv); (g)
This edits a January 2025 cyber order. Whole subsections are struck out. What is left is renumbered. Several phrases are deleted. One reference to a 2021 order is removed. The word novel is struck from one clause.
Sec. 2.
Further Amendments to Executive Order 14144. Executive Order 14144 is hereby amended by: (a) striking section 1 and inserting, in lieu thereof, the following: ``Section 1. Policy. Foreign nations and criminals continue to conduct cyber campaigns targeting the United States and Americans. The People's Republic of China presents the most active and persistent cyber threat to United States Government, private sector, and critical infrastructure networks, but significant threats also emanate from Russia, Iran, North Korea, and others who undermine United States cybersecurity. These campaigns disrupt the delivery of critical services across the Nation, cost billions of dollars, and undermine Americans' security and privacy. More must be done to improve the Nation's cybersecurity against these threats. I am ordering additional actions to improve our Nation's cybersecurity, focusing on
Further Amendments to Executive Order 14144. Executive Order 14144 is hereby amended by: (a) striking section 1 and inserting, in lieu thereof, the following: ``Section 1. Policy. Foreign nations and criminals continue to conduct cyber campaigns targeting the United States and Americans. The People's Republic of China presents the most active and persistent cyber threat to United States Government, private sector, and critical infrastructure networks, but significant threats also emanate from Russia, Iran, North Korea, and others who undermine United States cybersecurity. These campaigns disrupt the delivery of critical services across the Nation, cost billions of dollars, and undermine Americans' security and privacy. More must be done to improve the Nation's cybersecurity against these threats. I am ordering additional actions to improve our Nation's cybersecurity, focusing on
This rewrites the policy in that order. It says foreign states and criminals attack networks here. It names China as the most active threat. Russia, Iran and North Korea follow. It says the attacks cost billions. It says services are disrupted. It orders further steps.
Sec. 3.
Amendments to Executive Order 13694. Executive Order 13694 of April 1, 2015 (Blocking the Property of Certain Persons Engaging in Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities), as amended by Executive Order 13757 of December 28, 2016 (Taking Additional Steps to Address the National Emergency With Respect to Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities), Executive Order 13984 of January 19, 2021 (Taking Additional Steps to Address the National Emergency With Respect to Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities), and Executive Order 14144, is hereby further amended by: (a) striking from subsection 1(a)(ii) the phrase ``any person'' and inserting in lieu thereof ``any foreign person''; and (b) striking from subsection 1(a)(iii) the phrase ``any person'' and inserting in lieu thereof ``any foreign person.''.
Amendments to Executive Order 13694. Executive Order 13694 of April 1, 2015 (Blocking the Property of Certain Persons Engaging in Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities), as amended by Executive Order 13757 of December 28, 2016 (Taking Additional Steps to Address the National Emergency With Respect to Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities), Executive Order 13984 of January 19, 2021 (Taking Additional Steps to Address the National Emergency With Respect to Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities), and Executive Order 14144, is hereby further amended by: (a) striking from subsection 1(a)(ii) the phrase ``any person'' and inserting in lieu thereof ``any foreign person''; and (b) striking from subsection 1(a)(iii) the phrase ``any person'' and inserting in lieu thereof ``any foreign person.''.
This edits a 2015 order on cyber sanctions. That order freezes property of named hackers. Two clauses are changed. The words any person become any foreign person. That narrows who may be listed under it.
Sec. 4. General Provisions
Every order carries this. It is not what the order does.
(a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect: (i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or (ii) the functions of the Director of OMB relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals. [[Page 24726]] (b) This order shall be implemented in a manner consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations. (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person. (d) The costs for publication of this order shall be borne by the Department of Homeland Security. <GRAPHIC(S) NOT AVAILABLE IN TIFF FORMAT> (Presidential Sig.) THE WHITE HOUSE, June 6, 2025. [FR Doc.
(a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect: (i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or (ii) the functions of the Director of OMB relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals. [[Page 24726]] (b) This order shall be implemented in a manner consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations. (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person. (d) The costs for publication of this order shall be borne by the Department of Homeland Security. <GRAPHIC(S) NOT AVAILABLE IN TIFF FORMAT> (Presidential Sig.) THE WHITE HOUSE, June 6, 2025. [FR Doc.
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