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How does Executive Order 14306 shift the cyber strategy for government contractors?

Clark Hill PLC on 7/18/2025

On June 6, a new Executive Order (EO) on cybersecurity altered the compliance landscape for federal contractors. The order pauses the imminent requirement for software vendors to formally attest compliance with the Secure...more

Cybersecurity Regulation in Flux as Trump Administration Focuses on Evolving Foreign and Tech Threats

Latham & Watkins LLP on 7/17/2025

The administration has signaled a potential softening of cyber regulation for domestic entities, with increasing focus on national security priorities and preparing for the future....more

A New Executive Order Signals Administration’s Cybersecurity Priorities

Polsinelli on 7/9/2025

Key Takeaways - President Trump’s new cybersecurity Executive Order largely retains the structure and goals of EO 14144 but rolls back several deadlines and prescriptive directives to give agencies more flexibility....more

The Devil’s in the Details: Executive Order on Cybersecurity Reveals Administration’s Focus on AI-Cyber Convergence, Secure...

Goodwin on 7/2/2025

On June 6, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order entitled “Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity and Amending Executive Order 13694 and Executive Order 14144” (the “Order”). The measure...more

Trump Reverses Key Biden-Era Cyber Directives: Important Updates to Federal Cybersecurity Priorities

Quarles & Brady LLP on 7/1/2025

Earlier this month, President Trump issued an Executive Order, “Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity and Amending Executive Order 13694 and Executive Order 14144” (EO), which amends both Biden...more

President Trump’s Cyber Mandate: Analysis of Executive Order on Strengthening U.S. Cybersecurity

Wiley Rein LLP on 6/16/2025

President Trump issued a cybersecurity Executive Order, “Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity” (Trump EO), along with a corresponding Fact Sheet on June 6, 2025. The Trump EO clears some of the...more

Client Alert: White House Narrows and Refocuses Biden Executive Order on Strengthening Federal Cybersecurity

Jenner & Block on 6/12/2025

On June 6, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed a new executive order on “Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity and Amending Executive Order 13694 and Executive Order 14144” (“Trump Cyber EO”),...more

Trump’s New Cybersecurity Executive Order: What Contractors Need to Know

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 6/10/2025

On June 6, 2025, the Trump Administration released a new Executive Order (“EO”) on cybersecurity, Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity and Amending Executive Order 13694 and Executive Order...more

Crossing Administrations: The Focus on Federal Cybersecurity Continues

Goodwin on 3/20/2025

Federal contractors, including defense contractors, should prepare for the emergence of new requirements in the coming months that are designed to strengthen software supply chain security, impose more stringent cybersecurity...more

Analyzing President Biden's Ambitious Cybersecurity Executive Order

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 2/5/2025

In his final days in office, President Biden signed an ambitious executive order to improve the federal government's approach to cybersecurity. Executive Order 14114 ("Executive Order"), issued January 16, 2025, titled...more

Client Alert: White House Executive Order Seeks to Strengthen Federal Cybersecurity

Jenner & Block on 1/24/2025

On January 16, 2025, former President Biden issued the Executive Order on Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation’s Cybersecurity (the EO). The EO directs various parts of the federal government to adopt a...more

Biden Administration’s Eleventh-Hour Executive Order Imposes New Software Requirements on Companies

King & Spalding on 1/24/2025

On January 16, 2025, President Biden issued Executive Order 14144 on Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation’s Cybersecurity (the “EO”). Building on prior initiatives such as Executive Order 14028 and the...more

New Executive Order Bolsters the Nation's Cyber Defenses

K&L Gates LLP on 1/20/2025

In a significant move to bolster the United States’ cybersecurity framework, President Biden issued an executive order (EO) on 16 January 2025 titled “Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation’s Cybersecurity” days...more

Biden’s Final Cybersecurity Order Proposes Significant Changes, All to Be Implemented by the Incoming Administration

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Government... on 1/20/2025

Citing the threats posed by foreign adversaries and criminal organizations, and seeking enhanced accountability for companies that provide software and cloud services to the federal government, the Biden administration has...more

They Did It. They Really Did It! The Arrival of the FAR CUI Proposed Rule

McCarter & English Blog: Government Contracts... on 1/17/2025

After years of anticipation, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council has announced the arrival of its proposed rule to enhance the safeguarding of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) in federal contracts (the...more

Updates on Cybersecurity Requirements for Government Contractors

Wiley Rein LLP on 11/22/2024

Part of the Biden Administration’s push to enhance U.S. cybersecurity capabilities has focused on imposing new requirements on government contractors. The 2023 National Cybersecurity Strategy suggested, for example, that...more

Policy Patches: An Update on Software Security Regulation

Wiley Rein LLP on 8/15/2024

So far, 2024 has been another very busy year for U.S. cybersecurity regulation. Among the top priorities has been software security, as we previewed early this year. Companies that sell software to the federal government or...more

NIST Releases Series of AI Guidelines & Software in Ongoing Response to AI Executive Order

King & Spalding on 8/13/2024

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) recently announced the publication of three AI guidelines as well as its release of a software package aimed at helping organizations...more

NIST Issues New AI Risk Mitigation Guidelines and Software

WilmerHale on 8/9/2024

On July 26, 2024, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (“NIST”), part of the Department of Commerce, released guidelines, a global engagement plan, and software covering various aspects of AI technology...more

Rolling With the Punches in a Networked World: CCOE Cybersecurity Panel Discussion

Foley & Lardner LLP on 6/14/2024

Whether the game is football, baseball, hockey, or Indy Car racing, no team goes into their major championship matchup without training. Companies need to train as well if they intend to operate on the internet and expect to...more

CISA Unveils Final Self-Attestation Form for Software Producers Bidding on Federal Contracts

PilieroMazza PLLC on 5/1/2024

In March 2024, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released the final version of its secure software development self-attestation common form (Form), requiring federal government contractors who...more

DoD Unveils Cybersecurity Strategy for Defense Industrial Base: What You Need to Know

Woods Rogers on 4/15/2024

The United States Department of Defense (“DoD”) recently published its Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity Strategy 2024. For context, the DIB is comprised of more than 100,000 domestic and foreign companies or...more

What Does CISA’s Secure Software Development Form Mean for Contractors?

Wiley Rein LLP on 4/2/2024

WHAT: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published the final version of its Secure Software Development Attestation Common Form (Common Form) and announced...more

CISA Opens Repository for Submission of Software Security Attestation Forms

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 3/28/2024

On March 11, 2024, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (“CISA”) and the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) released the highly-anticipated Secure Software Development Attestation Form (also known as the...more

Update: CISA Seeks Additional Input from Software Providers on Security Attestation Form

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 12/7/2023

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (“CISA”) recently revised its Secure Software Development Attestation Common Form (after receiving over 110 comments on the initial draft), and is seeking additional...more

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