Beyond Compliance: Biden’s Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, Explained

On May 2021, President Joe Biden announced the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, paving a path forward to help agencies and policymakers modernize the nation’s federal agencies against evolving cyber attack. This directive comes after a rapid and intense spike in significant cyber incidents, from the SolarWinds breach to the Colonial Pipeline hack. With a 30-60-90 day timeline, there’s a sense of urgency throughout the executive order — and for good reason. Agencies must move quickly to prevent the next cyber attack.

That’s not an easy task, especially as cyber threats become increasingly sophisticated, as do computing environments.

“There are new technologies out there,” says Meghan Good, Director of the cyber Accelerator at Leidos. “There are different environments. We’ve really moved beyond the perimeter and we now have technologies running our business and operations that no longer reside in a physical location. There’s increasing risk and a need to secure that further.”

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