US President Joe Biden signed a Cybersecurity Decree and Protection of the Federal Government Networks from Kiberatak due to recent incidents with SolarWinds, Microsoft Exchange and Colonial Pipeline. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the National Security Council (SNB) at the White House.
In the SNA, they noted that the United States private and public sectors are increasingly faced with “sophisticated malicious cyber capacity from both state actors and from cybercriminals.”
The SNA explained that the decree eliminates the barriers to exchange information between the government and the private sector about threats in the field of cybersecurity. The document modernizes and implements “more stringent cybersecurity standards in the federal government, including prescribes to use multifactor authentication and encryption. In addition, the decree establishes basic safety standards for the development of software sold.
April 15, the White House stated that the foreign intelligence service (CVR) of Russia is involved in a large-scale cybershpionage campaign using SolarWinds software. On the same day, US President Joe Biden signed a decree on the introduction of new sanctions against Russia for “destabilizing actions in the international arena.”