President Biden
Joe BidenPutin backs up Belarus’s Lukashenko amid international pressure Biden administration to reimpose sanctions on Belarus over diverted flight Senate passes resolution urging probe into COVID-19 origins MORE’s cybersecurity executive order (EO) could mark a turning point against ever-more audacious cyber threats. Its scope is ambitious. Its demands for speedy action are significant. And it signals clear White House intent: to make real this administration’s stated focus on overhauling national and federal cyber defense.
Agencies are moving out fast to fulfill the EO’s mandates. But amidst this scramble, it’s easy to miss the thematic transformations bubbling under the EO’s surface. There are five of these — and they’ll undergird the future of national cybersecurity.
First, CISA is in the express elevator, rising fast to federal cybersecurity leadership. The EO turbocharges Cyberspace Solarium Commission recommendations, FY21 NDAA provisions, and an executive and legislative branch groundswell to codify CISA as the authoritative driver of federal and national cyber defense. This is a sea change: After 30 years without a clear federal cybersecurity…
