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Biden’s executive order on cybersecurity should include behavior transparency



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Ben Higgins
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Ben Higgins is a distinguished software engineer at cybersecurity company ExtraHop and has extensive experience in protocols, parsing, encryption, security, systems and performance engineering.

The Biden administration this spring announced an executive order designed to strengthen government cybersecurity defenses in the wake of several major recent hacks, including the SolarWinds, Microsoft Exchange Server and Pulse Secure incidents, which impacted numerous federal agencies and private companies. The order’s importance was underscored by the DarkSide ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline just a few weeks later.
One key element of the cyber executive order is a “software bill of …

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