White House tackles outdated cyber tools for federal networks, urges industry to follow suit

摘要

US President Joe Biden took steps to modernize national cyberdefenses with an executive order and encouraged the private sector tosimilarly pursue ambitious measures to align their cybersecurityinvestments with the goal of mitigating future breaches.A laissez-faire attitude towards cybersecurity and poor softwaresecurity were noted by a senior Biden administration official during aMay 12 call with reporters as common threads in last year’s SolarWindsincident and the recent ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline.