President Joe Biden is signing an executive order to strengthen the United States’ cybersecurity capabilities following several high-profile hacks from state-sponsored actors in China.
The sweeping Jan. 16 order mandates new security requirements for software used by government entities and contractors, establishes a national certification program for secure technology, and lowers the threshold required for imposing tariffs on malicious cyber actors.
Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technology, said that the order would help the United States to more effectively counter malicious cyber activity by adversarial nations and criminal groups alike.
“Adversary countries and criminals have increasingly targeted the U.S. government, corporations, and individual Americans with cyber attacks…,” Neuberger told reporters during a Jan. 15 press call….