In conjunction with his remarks at the White House Summit on Cybersecurity at Stanford University earlier this month, President Obama signed Executive Order 13691, entitled “Promoting Private Sector Cybersecurity Information Sharing.”  Published in the Federal Register last week, the Order is intended to encourage and facilitate cybersecurity information sharing within the private sector, and also between government and the private sector.  The Order emphasizes that, because a large majority of the nation’s critical infrastructure is privately owned, cybersecurity is necessarily a shared public-private mission.  At the same time, however, it also recognizes that cybersecurity must balance the exigency of security against the privacy and civil liberties of the American people.

For a complete summary of the Order and its implications, continue reading here.