CRITICALLY UNDERREGULATED: AN ANALYSIS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S SHORTCOMINGS ON CYBERSECURITY AND HOW PRESIDENT BIDEN'S EXECUTIVE ORDER DOESN'T GO FAR ENOUGH

Hughes discusses how the current cybersecurity rules are too limited and how President Biden's Executive Order, created in part to address these limitations, does not go far enough. The US faces a rising number of cyber threats to private organizations and state and federal governments. One of the setbacks the US faces in preventing cyberattacks is the current patchwork of regulations and laws that create the US' cybersecurity requirements, which leaves much of die private sector unregulated. Following the SolarWinds and Colonial Pipeline attacks, President Biden released an Executive Order on actions federal agencies and the private sector can take to strengthen the nation's cybersecurity. President Biden's Executive Order will help strengthen and update the federal government and private sector's cybersecurity, but the change is still not as broad and expansive as needed.