Digital Economy Cybersecurity Advisory Act of 2025
The Digital Economy Cybersecurity Advisory Act of 2025 would amend the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Organization Act to create within the NTIA a Digital Economy and Cybersecurity Board of Advisors. The Board’s job is to provide recommendations to the NTIA Assistant Secretary on how to pursue cybersecurity and economic growth in tandem. Its duties cover technical best practices (including securing the Border Gateway Protocol, or BGP, which underpins routing on the internet), cybersecurity policies for networks and the internet, policies to improve security and resilience while fostering innovation and secure supply chains, and strategies to remove barriers to trust, security, and commercialization in digital networks. The Board would be composed of 5–25 members with diverse expertise and representation from both public and private sectors, and would operate for up to four years before termination.
Key Points
- 1Establishment and purpose: Creates the Digital Economy and Cybersecurity Board of Advisors within the NTIA to advise on cybersecurity practices that support economic growth and secure information and communications networks.
- 2Duties of the Board: Provide recommendations on (1) technical cybersecurity best practices (including BGP security), (2) cybersecurity policies for the internet and networks, (3) policies promoting security and resilience and secure supply chains, and (4) policies to remove barriers to trust, security, innovation, and commercialization.
- 3Membership and balance: Board to have 5–25 members with expertise in cybersecurity or supply chain security, policy or practical operations. Must ensure balanced representation from public/private sectors, network operators, equipment vendors, software vendors, and internet application operators; lobbyists may not serve.
- 4Terms and governance: Members serve up to 2-year terms (eligible for reappointment); removal and vacancy rules are set; Chair is the Associate Administrator of NTIA for Policy Analysis and Development; members serve without compensation.
- 5Subcommittees: Board may establish subgroups, but these subgroups must report to the Board and cannot directly advise the Assistant Secretary.
- 6Duration: The Board is a temporary body that terminates four years after the enactment date.
- 7Definitions: Clarifies “Border Gateway Protocol” as the internet’s routing protocol among independently managed networks, and defines “information and communications network” as networks providing advanced telecommunications capability.