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United States: US Government issues Executive Order to Address the use of US IaaS products by foreign malicious cyber actors
On January 19, 2021, then President Trump issued Executive Order 13984 (“EO 13984”), “Taking Additional Steps To Address the National Emergency With Respect to Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities” which amends and expands Executive Order 13694 of April 1, 2015, to detect and deter the use of US infrastructure as a service (“IaaS”) products by foreign malicious cyber actors. Specifically, EO 13984 directs the US Department of Commerce (Commerce) to (i) issue regulations to detect and deter the use of US IaaS products in malicious cyber-enabled activities primarily via identity verification requirements and to (ii) coordinate with other US government agencies to impose “special measures” against certain foreign persons and/or foreign jurisdictions.
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On Tuesday, during his last full day as US President, Donald Trump issued an executive order seeking to curtail cyber attacks by directing the government to come up with rules requiring cloud service providers to better identify foreign customers.
It now falls to the incoming Biden administration to implement the order, which may end up simply being ignored, given the recent flood of executive orders.
The executive order on Taking Additional Steps to Address the National Emergency with Respect to Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities calls for the US Secretary of Commerce to propose rules to require United States IaaS providers to verify the identity of a foreign person that obtains an Account.