Today brings us the Biden administrations last Executive Order on cyber. It contains some improvements to policy surrounding emerging technologies such as AI and Post Quantum Cryptography, additional authorities to go after threat actors, and some good signal that USG is watching threat actor activity closely 1/n

whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/… First, this EO directs USG to do more R&D with AI for cyber defense in areas such as vulnerability discovery, patch management, and threat hunting. These are all areas ripe for scale and automation. It also calls for building and publishing more labelled cyber specific data sets, and leveraging AI in defense of critical energy infrastructure. 2/n