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On May 12, 2021, President Biden signed an executive order (EO) mandating that the federal government significantly improve cybersecurity within its networks and modernize federal cyber.
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On May 12, 2021, President Joe Biden issued a wide ranging Executive Order “On Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” which was in the works after the SolarWinds cyberattack and arrived soon after a ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline Company that cut off fuel supply to most of the east coast of the United States. The Order places responsibility on both the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to require agencies to protect their data, provide for more information sharing of cyber-attacks, and establishes a cyber incident review group. The Order includes the following information and procedures relevant to all federal government contractors and subcontractors.
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:Section 1.
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Half of the federal IT workforce is either over the average federal retirement age of 61 or will be within the next 10 years, according to a recent federal report. There’s no shortage of young technical talent interested using cutting-edge skills like service design, user research, product management, data science and software development for public sector work yet only about 3 percent of federal IT workers are under 30. And just look to historical examples of the failed Healthcare.gov rollout in 2013 or the State Department’s visa system failure in 2015 to show why data and tech skills are necessary for implementing