A Presidential Document by the Executive Office of the President on 01/17/2025

Executive Order on Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation’s Cybersecurity 

The WebAuthn standard was called out by name in a new cybersecurity executive order (EO) that was released by the White House – in the final days of the Biden Administration. Among other things, the new EO effectively codifies a previous 2022 policy memo that called for the US government to use only phishing-resistant authentication. 


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