In the wake of President Barack Obama's cybersecurity executive order, accounting and advisory firm Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP has provided the below timeline for the adoption of the plan's various elements.

The order addresses cyber risks to industries seen as critical to U.S. infrastructure. “The cyber threat to critical infrastructure continues to grow and represents one of the most serious national security challenges we must confront,” says the order. “The national and economic security of the United States depends on the reliable functioning of the Nation's critical infrastructure in the face of such threats.”

It calls for an inter-agency process to facilitate coordination and guidance of policies designed to “increase the volume, timeliness, and quality of cyber-threat information shared with U.S. private-sector entities so that these entities may better protect and defend themselves against cyber threats.”