President Biden’s Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity calls for ambitious cybersecurity reform across the federal space in response to recent incidents such as the attacks against SolarWinds and the Colonial Pipeline.
The Key tenets of the Executive Order include:
Threat Information Sharing
Cyber Incident Reporting
Enhancing Software Supply Chain Security
Modernizing Federal Government Cybersecurity
Establishing a Cyber Safety Review Board
Standardizing the Federal Government Cyber Incident Response to Incidents and Vulnerabilities
Improving Federal Cybersecurity Vulnerability and Incident Detection
Improving Federal Government Incident Detection, Response, and Remediation