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Executive Order on Cybersecurity Part 2

May 18, 2021 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

As I said yesterday, some EOs are a couple of paragraphs long. This one goes on for pages. Today’s post is going to cover the section of the EO that addresses supply chain risk. Supply chain risk, as we saw in both the SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange attacks, is a huge problem. So what does […]

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Alerts, Best Practices, Legal

Executive Order on Cybersecurity Part 1

May 17, 2021 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

While this EO and almost all EOs only affect what executive branch agencies do, it is likely that it will have a big effect on cybersecurity in general. Here are some requirements: The government uses a lot of commercial cloud software. Current contract terms may limit what data a cloud provider is allowed to share […]

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