Co-written with Austin Stubblefield
With cyber threats moving from attacks on private businesses to sweeping strikes on national infrastructure, the federal government is shifting resources and implementing new rules and regulations to address the growing challenge. On May 12, the administration outlined many ways federal agencies should improve their security procedures in an executive order signed by President Joe Biden.
After the Solar Winds hack, Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and a series of other high-stakes, high-profile incidents, Biden's executive order laid the groundwork for improving America's cybersecurity protocols. These included:
Removing barriers to information sharing
Modernize cybersecurity standards in government
Improve software supply chain security
Establish a cybersecurity safety review board
Create a playbook for cyber incidents
For this blog, we'll focus on removing barriers to information sharing and how that can help prevent cybersecurity incidents and breaches. The order reads as follows:
Remove Barriers to Threat Information Sharing Between Government and the Private Sector.
President Biden’s Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cyber Security ensures that IT service providers can share information with government agencies and requires them to share certain breach information. IT providers are often hesitant or unable to voluntarily share information about a compromise. Sometimes this can be due to contractual obligations; in other cases, providers simply may be reluctant to share information about their security breaches. Removing any contractual barriers and requiring providers to share breach information that could impact government networks is necessary to enable more effective defenses of federal departments and to improve the nation’s cybersecurity as a whole.
As cyber threats become more sophisticated, the need to communicate and collaborate effectively has never been more critical. Sharing threat ..
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