Brookings June 24, 2022
The Biden Administration’s Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (EO 14028) implements a set of requirements for operations and procurement. At its core is a set of information sharing requirements distributed across nine primary goals. The combination of these objectives offers the potential to create a functional, transparent market for security out of the long-standing morass of unsubstantiated claims, unknown code, and information symmetry (first identified in the crypto snake oil FAQ in 1998). These requirements align with extant incentives for individuals and organizations to invest more intensely in security. EO 14028 offers the potential not only for a more secure American supply chain, but also continued cybersecurity protection and a contribution to growth in smart manufacturing in which...