◾ A planned Biden administration executive order will require many software vendors to notify their federal government customers when the companies have a cybersecurity breach, according to a draft seen by Reuters. ◾ A National Security Council spokeswoman said no decision has been made on the final content of the executive order. The order could be released as early as next week. ◾ The SolarWinds Corp hack, which came to light in December, showed “the federal government needs to be able to investigate and remediate threats to the services it provides the American people early and quickly. Simply put, you can’t fix what you don’t know about,” the spokeswoman said. ◾ In the SolarWinds case, hackers suspected of working for the Russian government infiltrated its network management software and added code that allowed the hackers to spy on end users. ◾ The hackers penetrated nine federal agencies and 100 companies, including Microsoft Corp and other major tech companies. Cre: Reuters