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

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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

Woods Rogers

New Cybersecurity Executive Order Revises Specific Federal Policies While Retaining Core Security Principles

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On June 6, 2025, the Trump Administration issued a new Executive Order, Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity and Amending Executive Order 13694 and Executive Order 14144 (the EO) that contains...more

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Building the Cyber Fortress: New Cybersecurity Executive Order Targets Quantum, AI, and Supply Chain Security

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

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Trump Issues Executive Order on Cybersecurity Rolling Back Some Prior Policies and Introducing New Ones

Last week, the Trump administration made its priorities clear for the nation’s cybersecurity posture in the form of the newly issued executive order entitled “Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Agencies Release Actionable Guidance on Play Ransomware

The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC) have issued an...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Best Practices for Securing Data Used to Train and Operate AI Systems

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The National Security Agency’s Artificial Intelligence, Security Center (AISC), together with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Australian Signals...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

FedRAMP 20x Initiative Promises Major Changes for Federal Cloud Service Providers

Major changes are coming again to the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program ("FedRAMP"), the federal government's cybersecurity authorization program for cloud service providers ("CSPs")....more

Cozen O'Connor

FAR Proposed Controlled Unclassified Information Rule: A Path Toward Standardization

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On January 15, 2025, the FAR Council finally released a proposed rule (the Rule)1 regulating the use and handling of controlled unclassified information (CUI) as a part of the general strategy to reduce threats of...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Biden Issues Cyber Executive Order in Last Days of Term

Former President Joe Biden issued an Executive Order (EO) entitled “Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation’s Cybersecurity” on January 16, 2025. The EO is designed to...more

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President Biden Issues Second Cybersecurity Executive Order

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In light of recent cyberattacks targeting the federal government and United States supply chains, President Biden’s administration has released an Executive Order (the “Order”) in an attempt to modernize and enhance the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

‘All Hands on Deck’ – White House Continues to Call on Agencies for AI National Security Plan

In the waning months of the current administration, the White House issued a memo setting forth actions focused on national security as directed in the AI Executive Order from last year. As a reminder, the order -while...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Do Business With the Federal Government? Here’s a 2022 Cybersecurity Recap: Part Three - Secure Software Development Attestation...

Yesterday we continued our series... with the Office of Management and Budget’s September 2022 memorandum requiring federal agencies to only use software from software producers that attest compliance with secure software...more

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How the Federal Government Supports and Hinders AI

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Beginning in 2019, the US federal government ramped up its involvement in, and regulation of, the use of artificial intelligence (AI). The federal government is grappling with how to incentivize AI innovation responsibly,...more

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Software Developers With Federal Government Customers Must Provide Confirmation of NIST Standards

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In mid-September, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a memorandum requiring federal agencies to obtain attestation from software developers before running third-party software on government networks. Under...more

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Seeking HoNIST Opinions, Part II – NIST Invites Comments on Major Revision to Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management Practices and...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) is seeking comments on its second draft of NIST SP 800-161 Rev. 1, “Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management Practices for Systems and Organizations,” published on October...more

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IoT Security Reaches Center Stage in U.S.

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How is a refrigerator like a stoplight camera and a delivery drone? Each of these devices and hundreds of millions of others are part of the internet of things (IoT), meaning that manufacturers are building them with sensors...more

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Senate Passes IoT Cybersecurity Bill by Unanimous Consent

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Last night, the Senate passed by unanimous consent H.R. 1668, the Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity Improvement Act. The House had previously passed the bill by voice vote in September after lengthy negotiations with...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

CISA Releases “Cyber Essentials” to Assist Small Businesses

The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency recently released its Cyber Essentials guide. Consistent with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, these Cyber Essentials provide “a starting...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Feds Want New IoT Guidance to Address Security Vulnerabilities

“Internet of Things” devices are listening. And now the federal government is taking notice. As we reported in our Government Contracts and Investigations blog, to date, federal cybersecurity regulations for government...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

“Internet of Things” Guidance to be Added to Cybersecurity Requirements for Agencies and Federal Contractors

In 2019, cybersecurity has become top-of-mind for most federal government contractors and agencies that share sensitive information. In addition to updated Department of Defense guidance and procedures for evaluating...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

DOD and Other Agencies Seek to Enhance Contractors’ Cyber and Supply Chain Security

The Department of Defense (DOD) and its component services and agencies are taking several independent steps to assess and enhance their cyber and supply chain security that will directly or indirectly affect DOD contractors...more

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