On May 12, 2021, President Biden released the “Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity.” The executive order followed a series of high-profile information security attacks and ransomware incidents targeting the public and private sector. President Biden’s executive order emphasizes the need to elevate information security as a core tenet of national security, and calls on federal agencies and public sector organizations to work with the private sector to prioritize the data security and privacy of the American people and government.
How will the executive order affect federal agencies?
The executive order calls on federal agencies to lead the way in security best practices and to modernize their approach to increasingly sophisticated digital threats. The executive order requires federal agencies to prioritize cloud adoption, identify sensitive data and update the protections for that data, encrypt data at rest and in transit, implement multi-factor authentication, and meet expanded logging requirements. It also references Zero Trust Architectures and, for the first time, requires federal agencies to develop plans to implement a Zero Trust approach.
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