President Joe Biden’s new cybersecurity executive order (EO) attempts to fix some persistent issues with national and federal cybersecurity. But can it work? As someone who has spent more than two decades working in government and now a decade in the private sector confronting cyber threats, a few provisions stand out.
If the changes laid out within the EO are implemented and funded correctly, we could see huge changes within agencies in the next year. The federal government would be mandated (for the first time) to leverage the same technologies the private sector has been using to their advantage for years. Ultimately, the Biden Administration is looking to make U.S. infrastructure more resilient, and the EO is a step in the right direction, but there is still much work to be done.
