Hathaway: Enforcing agency, industry accountability is critical to executive order implementation

Federal agencies should face tangible consequences for failing to meet the milestones in President Biden’s cybersecurity executive order, says policy veteran Melissa Hathaway, while corporate leaders should be required to attest that their software products meet standards NIST will develop under the EO.

“I’m happy they got it out and put a stake in the ground highlighting that cybersecurity is a priority, because it wasn’t in the last administration,” Hathaway said of the executive order in an interview with Inside...