President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order Wednesday directing the Commerce Department to create cybersecurity standards for companies that sell software to the federal government. The Order comes in the immediate aftermath of a ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline, an East Coast gasoline supplier that, also on Wednesday, restarted operations after the company came to a standstill last Friday. The White House held emergency meetings to possibly strengthen a planned Executive Order on cybersecurity that could be released in the coming days or weeks. The order could place new restrictions on businesses that develop software and sell it to the government, such as the requirements to use multi-factor authentication and access federal databases only when completely necessary.”]