Executive Order (EO) 13691, issued in February of 2015, directed the Department of Homeland Security to encourage the development and formation of ISAOs. The EO required the department to select, through an open and competitive process, a non-governmental entity to serve as the ISAO Standards Organization. The U.S. will gain new cybersecurity information sharing networks that will help to broaden cyber information sharing relationships. Establishing a broad network of ISOOs sharing information with each other and the federal government will change the game.”]