Trump delivered his final speech in office on the 19th.
The White House said today that President Donald Trump signed an executive order on his last day in office to prevent outsiders from using Cloud Computing products to launch malicious cyber operations against the United States.
Reuters was the first to reveal that the executive order authorizes the Commerce Department to develop regulations that would restrict transactions if foreigners use cloud-based computing goods or services to launch cyberattacks.
What we’re seeing in this space is … one person renting thousands of these pieces of infrastructure in the U.S. and reselling them to actors who would abuse them,” a top government official told Reuters, adding that the Commerce Secretary now has the ability to regulate this and restrict access to related goods and services for abusers.
The official added that the restrictions can be applied to jurisdictions as well as to individuals and businesses.
The executive order also requires the Commerce Department to develop specifications for IaaS (infrastructure as a service) within six months to verify the identity of foreign nationals and maintain partial records of transactions.
Officials said the U.S. government has been working on the order for nearly two years, but the content was revealed shortly before a major Cyber Attack in the U.S. in which Hackers used a vulnerability in the information technology company SolarWinds to break into U.S. federal government and corporate networks.
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