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Biden’s Executive Order on Cybersecurity calls for MFA and Data Encryption

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The Executive Order is signed in the wake of several recent cybersecurity catastrophes, such as the ransomware attack targeting the Colonial Pipeline, the Microsoft Exchange server vulnerabilities that affected more than 60,000 organizations, and the SolarWinds hack that compromised nine federal agencies.

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How security professionals will rise to the challenge of cyber defense in 2022

CyberSecurity Insiders

Increasingly, personal privacy is being viewed as a human right, and the way vendors handle consumer and employee data will determine how much the public trusts them and wants to conduct business with them. Protecting unstructured data will likely be one of the biggest challenges in the new year. Danny Lopez, CEO, Glasswall.