The U.S. Government Needs to Overhaul Cybersecurity. Here’s How. President Biden and Vice President Harris in the Oval Office of the White House. (White House Photo by Adam Schultz). After the 2015 hack of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, the SolarWinds breach, and—just weeks after SolarWinds—the latest Microsoft breach, it is by now clear that the U.S. federal government is woefully unprepared in matters of cybersecurity. Following the SolarWinds intrusion, White House leaders have called for a comprehensive cybersecurity overhaul to better protect U.S. critical infrastructure and data, and the Biden administration plans to release a new executive order to this end.