On Wednesday, President Obama has
put an executive order into action that will allow the Secretary of the
Treasury, Secretary of State, and the Attorney General to impose sanctions on cyber
attackers that hack into US companies or government agencies networks. The
White House is attempting to make it more difficult for hackers to profit from
stolen information. The new executive order would ban individual hackers from
traveling to the US as well as possibly imposing sanctions to prevent US companies
from doing business with individuals, companies, or countries that are involved
in cyber attacking. This executive order is designed to go after the most
dangers attackers and is not meant to be used against the lower level hackers. President
Obama has recently made a push to make cybersecurity more of a priority, in the
wake of 50% increase in data breaches since 2013. Obama has also proposed
adding $14 billion to the budget in hopes of improving corporate and government
cyber security. I think this is the start of making the cyber world more secure
and I’m personally glad to see these things happen.
http://www.cnet.com/news/obama-issues-executive-order-to-sanction-malicious-cyber-actors/
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