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.

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