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The National Coordination Center will create a program allowing authorized U.S. companies to conduct cyber operations against transnational criminal organizations at the direction of the federal government, according to a memorandum signed by President Donald Trump on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Program executive directors from the departments of Homeland Security and Justice will have the authority to greenlight companies\u2019 cyber operations unless the authorization would result in a loss of life, serious injury or \u201crise to the level of use of forced or armed attack under international law.\u201d<\/p>\n

The federal government would vet and conduct oversight of authorized companies, which would need to enter into contractual agreements with either DHS or Justice.<\/p>\n

The specific standards the government will use to screen the companies will be drafted by the program executive directors \u2014 in coordination with the Homeland Security Council \u2014 within 60 days of the memo\u2019s signing. They will include technical proficiency, proven performance of cyber operations, facility security, personnel vetting, competence and reliability, according to the document.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The group will ensure that program participation criteria enable\u00a0involvement from large and small companies, and that operations target only transnational criminal organizations.<\/p>\n

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The memo also allows participating companies to enter into commercial agreements with other private sector entities, federal agencies and state entities. The program executive directors will produce a report on the initiative\u2019s status and submit it to the National Cyber Director and Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor.<\/p>\n

The cybersecurity program seeks to build on a March executive order laying out steps to combat cybercrime. That order was released alongside a national security strategy that called for the government to more directly respond to adversarial threats and secure critical U.S. technologies.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Mike Centrella \u2014 the head of public policy at SecurityScorecard \u2014 said the document \u201crepresents an important shift in how the United States approaches cyber threats originating overseas.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cStrengthening defenses remains critical, but the memorandum recognizes that addressing cybercrime also requires identifying and disrupting the infrastructure and networks that allow criminal organizations to operate,\u201d he said, adding that the guidance \u201csignals an evolution in public-private cybersecurity collaboration \u2014 from primarily sharing information about threats toward combining government authorities with private-sector intelligence and capabilities to more actively disrupt them.”<\/p>\n

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