A new memo aims to safeguard military, intelligence and classified systems from advanced security threats, amid concerns about AI-driven cyber attacks. A new White House memo aims to strengthen the cybersecurity of sensitive government systems by centralizing oversight of those systems, while also setting aggressive deadlines for updating incident response procedures and other policies. In a national security presidential memorandum signed out Friday, President Donald Trump re-establishes and updates the Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS), a decades-old interagency body that sets security policies for military and intelligence systems, as well as systems that process classified information. It charges the committee with leading a policy aimed at fostering “a proactive, adaptive, and resilient cybersecurity ecosystem for all NSS to better safeguard the nation against persistent cyber threats from sophisticated adversaries.” The memo gives the committee the power to establish “baseline cybersecurity requirements” for all national security systems. It formalizes the director of the National Security Agency’s role as the “national manager” for national security systems. That role involves identifying emerging threats and providing minimum security protections, including through emergency directives. The memo includes the federal chief information officer on the reconstituted CNSS body, along with the deputy national manager at the NSA and the CIOs at the Defense Department and the intelligence community, respectively. Earn CPE credit: The latest webinar from the Billington CyberSecurity Cyber and AI Outlook Series will focus on the real-world risks facing AI deployments across the federal landscape. Register now! It also mandates that national security systems should meet or exceed the level of cybersecurity standards issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Hemant Baidwan, former chief information security officer at the Department of Homeland Security and the CISO at Knox Systems, said the updates to CNSS membership, along with other aspects of the