U.S. cybersecurity to get boost following executive order
NewsMay 13, 2021
WASHINGTON. President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday (May 12) that is intended to harden the U.S. federal government's cybersecurity defenses, as the administration tackles a number of overlapping cyberintrusions.
The executive order -- which the administration had been working on for several months -- directs the Commerce Department to write new standards for software vendors supplying the federal government. It will feature a cybersecurity rating system and mandate modernization of U.S. cyber networks, to include multifactor user verification and additional layers of encryption.
Read the entire text of the executive order here.
