Security News > 2021 > May > Biden executive order bets big on zero trust for the future of US cybersecurity
For the US government and its suppliers, this executive order represents massive change.
This post focuses on the Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity and its impact on cybersecurity and the zero trust approach.
The Biden administration also published a fact sheet: "President Signs Executive Order Charting New Course to Improve the Nation's Cybersecurity and Protect Federal Government Networks" giving a solid summary of the executive order that we recommend checking out, especially for nongovernmental entities.
The US federal government's procurement processes are rigid, antiquated, and glacial, which portions of this executive order seek to address.
These are the first steps that need to be taken, considering we have almost 30 years of data and 10 years of highly damaging attacks confirming the obvious: The US government is in the crosshairs of other countries, much like other governments are targeted by the US. Forrester predicted that a government would formalize zero trust as a framework, and sure enough, it was the United States.
The zero trust approach will now have an impact on the way the US secures its federal government.