Unpacking EO14028: Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity - Pt. 4

Section 3 - Less Fog, More Cloud

Section 3: Modernizing Federal Government Cybersecurity of the Executive Order is all about government agencies moving to the cloud and doing it right. If you are someone who believes that the cloud has absolutely no place in the industrial control systems (ICS) world, you are going to hate this section.

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Unpacking EO14028: Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity - Pt. 3

So you don’t sell to the Feds…

Today’s blog is going to take a break from analyzing a specific section of the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity and focus on who will be impacted by the order.

I got thinking about this last week when Tom Clary posted this insightful comment on LinkedIn:

[This] Executive Order in no way compels private sector critical infrastructure to do anything different. It seems intended to better protect...

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Unpacking EO14028: Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity - Pt. 2

Removing Barriers to Sharing Threat Information

On Friday we dissected Section 4: Enhancing Software Supply Chain Security of the new Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. Today we will look at Section 2: Removing Barriers to Sharing Threat Information. We’ve also updated the EO14028 Timeline I posted previously to include Section 2 deadlines:

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Unpacking EO14028: Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity - Pt. 1

 

Late Wednesday night President Biden signed the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity.  

Compared to any Executive Order (EO) I’ve seen, this is a massive and complex policy document: the average length of an EO has been under 3½ pages; most are just 1 or 2 pages. This EO weighs in at 18 pages with 74 actionable directives. Forty-five of those directives have defined due dates, many linked to the completion of other directives....

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