The executive order signed by President Biden on May 12, 2021, emphasizes the importance of improving federal agencies' cybersecurity practices to prevent severe economic and civilian impacts. The order calls for close partnership between the public and private sectors to create a more secure cyberspace, with a focus on supply-chain security, Zero-Trust architecture, and cloud adoption. Key areas of emphasis include removing barriers to sharing threat information, modernizing federal government cybersecurity, enhancing software supply chain security, establishing a Cyber Safety Review Board, standardizing vulnerability and incident response playbooks, improving detection of cybersecurity vulnerabilities and incidents, and strengthening investigative and remediation capabilities. The order also requires agencies to adopt multi-factor authentication, encryption, and secure cloud services, such as infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, and software-as-a-service.