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
In addition to summarizing the proactive cybersecurity directives of the Executive Order, this publication features ICIT Fellows’ perspectives on how the foundation set by the Executive Order can be built upon in the future. Recommendations include:
- Considering the Offensive and Defensive Weaponization of IoCs
- Addressing the Challenges Around Modernization and MFA Adoption
- Improving Public-Private Collaboration
- Reforming Internal Federal Software Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM)
- Integrating Cybersecurity Ethics Reinforcement
- Creating a National Campaign to Socialize Federal Cybersecurity Reform
ICIT would like to thank the following Fellows and Contributors for offering their analysis and perspectives of President Biden’s Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity:
- David Wray, ICIT Fellow & CTO, Micro Focus Government Solutions
- Jim Routh, ICIT Fellow, & Advisor, Board Member, & Former CSO
- Don Maclean, ICIT Fellow & Chief Cybersecurity Technologist, DLT
- Itzik Kotler, ICIT Fellow & Co-Founder & CTO, SafeBreach
- Parham Eftekhari, ICIT Founder & Chairman, & Executive Director, Cybersecurity Collaborative
- Michael Aisenberg, ICIT Fellow & Chief Cyber Policy Counsel, MITRE
- Dr. Barry West, ICIT Fellow & Former Acting CIO, DHS
- Stan Mierzwa, Director, Center for Cybersecurity, Kean University
- Kevin Hansen, CTO, Federal Channels and Alliances, Micro Focus Government Solutions