How Executive Order 14028 Is Strengthening Supply Chain Cybersecurity for the Public and Private Sector

**Executive Summary:** Executive Order 14028 mandates continuous monitoring, Zero Trust adoption, multi-factor authentication, SBOMs, endpoint detection and response, and enhanced threat sharing across federal agencies and their contractors; this document explains how those requirements shift security from periodic audits to continuous readiness and positions SecurityScorecard's external scanning and security ratings as an operational tool to help agencies and vendors detect, communicate, and remediate supply-chain and external-facing risks in real time.