SiliconANGLE’s John Casaretto took some time off this morning to discuss the latest update on the state of Cybersecurity (full video below).

Earlier this month, Cassaretto covered Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s effort to revive stalled litigation meant to implement measures against potentially devastating attacks on critical infrastructure: utilities, financial intuitions and government agencies.

Around the same time, word of a correlating executive order by the Obama administration came out, but its exact content was not known – at least up until now.  A seven-page draft of the document was leaked this week, and Cassaretto has all the details.

He says that the paper, as one might expect, doesn’t cover too many specifics. Instead it outlines plans for a sophisticated two-way communications network that will be established between the critical organizations mentioned above. This is assuming the order will be signed, but Cassaretto sees no reason it wouldn’t be.

The channel that the paper describes will link relevant personnel at each organization to the Department of Homeland Security, and will provide them with the means to exchange information about high priority cyber threats. Participation is voluntary, at least in the current version of the document.

The goal is to prepare the U.S for what Defense Secretary Leon Panetta referred to as a “cyber Pearl Harbor” – an inevitable attack that won’t be deflected, but perhaps mitigated with the proper measures in places.

In the second part of the interview Cassaretto provides his take on the latest from Apple. The company is reportedly loosening some of its ties with Samsung, one of its largest suppliers, and is currently pursuing other partnerships to bridge the gap.  More specifically, the mobile giant is looking for a new chip supplier, but surprisingly Intel wasn’t on its list.

Jon says that the reason is an operational one. Most of Intel’s income comes from relatively high-margin desktop and data center processors; manufacturing the cheap ARM architecture-based silicon that Apple requires would simply not fit into its current business structure.