In a first for the United States, the White House is looking to build an army of private hackers to combat cyberattacks.
Outlined in a new presidential memoranda issued Aug. 12, the Trump administration will begin contracting out efforts to curb the actions of transnational criminal organizations (or TCOs) to American businesses.
“American businesses’ innovative capabilities have historically been underutilized in efforts to identify and disrupt criminal networks operating in cyberspace,” the order reads. “It is the policy of the United States to use all instruments of national power, including the innovative capabilities of the private sector, to combat cybercrime.”
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