President Obama Signs Cybersecurity Executive Order

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The executive order that President Barack Obama signed on February 12th in advance of his State of the Union Address contains a lot of provisions for information sharing on attacks and threats on critical infrastructure, and also calls for the development of a framework to reduce cybersecurity risks in federal agencies and critical infrastructure. 

Read the executive order on cybersecurity and see what is identified as mandated and what is being classified aside as volunteer initiatives.

ThreatPost has additional information about this executive order.