President Joe Biden signed an executive order outlining new steps for the country’s cybersecurity by strengthening the U. S. government that opposes ransomware attackers and other malicious actors and greater accountability for software and security vendors. cloud services.
The White House said Thursday the EO directs the director of the Office of Management and Budget and secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to recommend contract language requiring software providers to submit to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency machine-readable secure software development attestations, high-level artifacts to validate those attestations.
Software vendors also send CISA a list of their software customers from companies in the Federal Civil Executive Branch.
The new policy requires the National Institute for Standards and Technology to develop guidance on how to securely deploy software updates to prevent cyber incidents and directs the General Services Administration to create a policy that would require cloud providers to submit suggestions for how clients can secure their use of cloud offerings.
The EO is launching a public-private partnership to deploy synthetic intelligence to protect critical energy infrastructure from cyber threats and is leading the studies and progression of AI-based cybersecurity equipment and techniques.
The measure also aims to boost the adoption of post-quantum technologies and calls for the advancement of new cybersecurity contractual requirements for systems purchased through agencies.
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