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On May 12, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order on Improving the Nation s
Cybersecurity (the Order). The Order emphasized the current
cyberattack landscape targeting the public and private sectors and
the need to heighten efforts and increase resources to defend
against this threat environment. The Order comes following recent
high-profile cyber incidents, such as the Colonial Pipeline
ransomware, the SolarWinds attack, and the exploitation of
Microsoft Exchange zero-day vulnerabilities. Echoing the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity
Framework s Five Functions, the Order called for the federal