Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity

Executive Order 14028 of May 12, 2021

By: The President of the United States

Narrated by: Tom Brooks

Several Orders - starting with:

Improving the nation’s cybersecurity by the authority vested in me as president by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Policy. The United States faces persistent and increasingly sophisticated malicious cyber campaigns that threaten the public sector, the private sector, and ultimately the American people’s security and privacy. The Federal Government must improve its efforts to identify, deter, protect against, detect, and respond to these actions and actors. The Federal Government must also carefully examine what occurred during any major cyber incident and apply lessons learned.

But cybersecurity requires more than government action. Protecting our Nation from malicious cyber actors requires the Federal Government to partner with the private sector. The private sector must adapt to the continuously changing threat environment, ensure its products are built and operate securely, and partner with the Federal Government to foster a more secure cyberspace. In the end, the trust we place in our digital infrastructure should be proportional to how trustworthy
and transparent that infrastructure is, and to the consequences we will incur if that trust is misplaced.

Incremental improvements will not give us the security we need; instead, the Federal Government needs to make bold changes and significant investments in order to defend the vital institutions that underpin the American way of life. The Federal Government must bring to bear the full scope of its authorities and resources to protect and secure its computer systems, whether they are cloud-based, on-premises, or hybrid. The scope of protection and security must include systems that process data (information technology (IT).

©2021 Tom Brooks (P)2021 Tom Brooks

The time is now…

My Grandfather once told me , just because you don’t hit back does not mean you are not in a fight.

Wake up, as they told George Bush on 9/11 “America is under attack”.

We need to develop a trained community of Cybersecurity defenders and also counter the misinformation being spread by our old and new adversaries to weaken our democracy.