Zscaler’s Stephen Kovac: Executive Order Could Move National Cybersecurity Into ‘Cloud Secure’ Era

Some technology industry leaders said President Joe Biden's recent executive order offers a new paradigm for the public sector to expand cyber threat information sharing initiatives with the private sector and update cloud service cybersecurity requirements, FedScoop reported Thursday,

"The Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity moves us into the era of Cloud Secure,” Stephen Kovac, vice president of global government and head of corporate compliance at Zscaler, told the publication.

President Biden instructed federal agencies to accelerate migration to cloud infrastructure, adoption of zero trust architecture and implementation of multifactor authentication technology.

The directive comes in response to large-scale breach incidents such as the SolarWinds hack and the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack.

Kovac proposed applying the General Services Administration's Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's Trusted Internet Connections framework as the foundation of government cloud security modernization efforts.

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