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On May 12, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity following a series of highly publicized cybersecurity incidents during the first four months of his presidency, including the Colonial Pipeline attack, which revealed vulnerabilities within the nation’s infrastructure and information systems. While this is not the first executive order issued to enhance the nation’s cyber defenses, it is the executive order most likely to have an impact and result in a change in light of the White House’s statement that “[r]ecent cybersecurity incidents . . . are a sobering reminder that U.S. public and private sector entities increasingly face sophisticated malicious cyber activity from both nation-state actors and cyber criminals . . . [as well as] insufficient cybersecurity defenses that leave public and private sector entities more vulnerable to incidents.”
Today, President Biden signed an Executive Order to improve the nation’s cybersecurity and protect federal government networks. Recent cybersecurity incidents such as SolarWinds, Microsoft Exchange, and the Colonial Pipeline incident are a sobering reminder that U.S. public and private sector entities increasingly face sophisticated malicious cyber activity from both nation-state actors and cyber criminals. These incidents share commonalities, including insufficient cybersecurity defenses that leave public and private sector entities more vulnerable to incidents.
This Executive Order makes a significant contribution toward modernizing cybersecurity defenses by protecting federal networks, improving information-sharing between the U.S. government and the private sector on cyber issues, and strengthening the United States’ ability to respond to incidents when they occur. It is the first of many ambitious steps the Administration is taking to modernize national cyber defenses.
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The Cyber Defense Command of the Ministry of National Defense (MApN) participates, with a team of 21 specialists, between April 13-16, in the international cyber defense exercise Locked Shields 2021.
The online exercise, planned and organized by the NATO Center of Excellence for Cyber Defense in Tallinn, Estonia, is attended by teams from allied and partner states made up of professionals in the field, military staff and civilians, the Ministry of National Defense said on Monday.
This year, Romania is recording its first participation in Locked Shields with an interdepartmental team coordinated by the Cyber Defense Agency of the Cyber Defense Command. The team is composed of approximately 75 specialists who come, in addition to the Ministry of National Defense, from the other institutions of the defense system, public order and national security, from the National Center for Response to Cyber Security Incidents, as well as from private companies that operate
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Employees and other insiders are a significant risk to the
security of personal information and other data. A substantial
portion of cybersecurity incidents is caused or facilitated by the
affected organization s insiders, whether acting inadvertently
or intentionally. The Privacy Commissioner of Canada recently
issued a report that provides guidance for managing insider
threats.
Insider threats
Studies consistently indicate that a substantial portion of
cybersecurity incidents and data breaches is caused or facilitated
by a current or former insider (
e.g., a director,
executive/manager, employee or contract worker) of the affected