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Meaning Of A Cybersecurity Executive Order For The Private Sector

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  Meaning Of A Cybersecurity Executive Order For The Private Sector For many reasons, it's unreasonable to expect Central and State Governments to develop software that will protect their day-to-day operations. So, they depend on solutions provided by private companies. This helps the government to get access to best-of-breed solutions developed by experienced companies, and in return, the private firms get secure funds and help them to develop more advanced technology; a perfect win-win situation. But let's discuss the security implications of this relationship? Recent incidents have exhausted any assumption that if governmental agencies, use any kind of software, it must be secure. And this isn't necessarily due to a shortage of assiduity on the government's side; some sort of security threats, like ones found further up the supply chain, are simply out of their hands. In the USA SolarWinds, breach incident was, and still is, highly talked about, and it's for good...