Security News > 2021 > August > Experts: WH Cybersecurity Summit Should Be Followed by Regulation, Enforcement

Cataclysmic breaches and a woeful shortage of a trained cybersecurity workforce prompted the Biden Administration to haul a collection of the biggest names in business into a White House cybersecurity summit this week, to talk about what they plan to do about it.

For all the public posturing by prominent CEOs at tech giants, many security experts agree that the administration will ultimately need to mandate and enforce cybersecurity standards to make real progress.

"Given the makeup of the economy and the country, the government is limited in what changes it can make. Cybersecurity legislation is a heavy tool, but regulation may be necessary to force companies to step up."

On May 12, President Biden issued a sweeping Executive Order intended to boost the nation's cybersecurity which handed down requirements for private sector reporting of cybersecurity incidents to the federal government, plus a massive overhaul of federal cybersecurity as well as supply-chain security.

The wholesale, very public acceptance by the Biden Administration that cybersecurity is a real threat to national security is encouraging, according to Sotero founder Purandar Das, but he suggested it needs to be followed up by enforcement.

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