The Trump Admin Is Refusing to Give Full Cybersecurity Support to Biden’s Transition Team

Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images). Article by Tom McKay.

President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team is using a “standard, paid Google workspace network” with only limited support from the federal government thanks to Donald Trump’s refusal to concede the 2020 elections and efforts to hobble the inbound Democratic administration, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

Presidential transition teams typically have the support of the General Services Administration, which helps them set up and manage “ptt.gov” email accounts, and the Department of Homeland Security, which provides cybersecurity assistance to help ensure those accounts aren’t penetrated. That isn’t happening, or at least not in full. The GSA has refused to recognize Biden has won the election, and its Trump-appointed chief Emily Murphy has given no indication she feels the need to anytime soon. (She could theoretically hold off until congressional certification of the electoral college in January 2021.) The GSA has offered “basic information technology and cybersecurity services,” the Journal wrote, but is apparently holding out otherwise. […]

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