Security News > 2021 > May > Expert: Biden's executive order on cybersecurity is a good start toward protecting organizations
TechRepublic's Karen Roby spoke with Jennifer Bisceglie, CEO of Interos, about President Joe Biden's executive order on cybersecurity.
The first one talks about all software that the government purchases needs to meet new cybersecurity standards within six months, so they actually put a timeframe around it, around multi-factor authentication, endpoint detection and response of software.
The second is the establishment of a cybersecurity safety review board to actually look and investigate incidents, and learn and share from those hacking events.
The last is to have a government-wide cybersecurity detection and response system, which again, falls back on that information sharing.
You would think that when we share information of what's happening here and what's happening there, that it only helps us all, but is that something we just haven't done a good job of or just hasn't been enforced?
I think, getting the human aspect, getting that cultural shift, seeing these things funded, executive orders are really great to getting discussions like this going, but are we actually going to put funding behind it to enable some of these processes to be stood up and technologies to be stood up? That's still yet to be seen.