White House Cyber Strategy Prioritizes Offense

**Executive summary:** The Trump administration published a concise seven-page cybersecurity strategy and an accompanying executive order that emphasize preemption, expanded offensive and defensive cyber operations, deregulation, modernization of federal networks (zero-trust, post-quantum crypto, AI tools), critical infrastructure hardening, AI leadership, and workforce development; the document signals a more aggressive deterrence posture but remains high-level and light on implementation details.