Episode 362: The Biden Cybersecurity Executive Order – CISA As CISO

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• Our interview is with, Brandon Wales, acting head of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Jen Daskal, Deputy General Counsel for Cyber and Technology Law at DHS. We dig deep into the latest Executive Order on cybersecurity. There's a lot to say. The EO is focused largely on how the federal civilian government protects its networks, and it is just short of revolutionary in overriding longstanding turf fights, almost all of which are resolved in favor of CISA - to the point where it seems clear that CISA is on its way to being the civilian agencies' CISO, or Chief Information Security Office. This is clearly CISA's moment. It is getting new authorities from the President and new money from Congress. Whether it can meet all the expectations that these things bring is the question.