National Security, NIST, Cyber Attacks

Cybersecurity: Salt Typhoon’s Persistence is a Cruel Lesson for Smaller Providers

Womble Bond Dickinson on 4/25/2025

This article is based on Carri Bennet’s April 9th presentation at the Palmetto Broadband Coalition Annual Convention in Greenville, S.C. In December 2024, the White House’s Deputy National Security Adviser for Cyber and...more

Evolution of the Chinese Hacking Threat: Risks for Government and Industry

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 12/8/2023

On May 24, 2023, Microsoft announced the detection of a direct threat to critical infrastructure organizations in Guam and elsewhere in the United States. The alert attributed observed malicious activity to a state-sponsored...more

2022 Cyber Watch List: A look at 2021 and What’s to Come in the Year Ahead

Wiley Rein LLP on 1/19/2022

Privacy In Focus®- In 2021, cyber gained prominence as a top business risk and national security concern with ransomware attacks wreaking havoc on business operations and critical infrastructure. Companies large and small,...more

Biden-Harris Administration Prioritizing Cybersecurity

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing on 9/20/2021

It has become increasingly clear that improving cybersecurity will be a main focus, and important goal, of the Biden-Harris administration. In May 2021, President Joseph Biden issued an executive order modernizing federal...more

To Combat Cyber Crime, White House Initiative Promises Tools; Some Seek Funding, New Laws

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 9/14/2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21 no. 9 (September, 2021) - As ransomware attacks become epidemic and breaches get larger, the Biden administration is partnering with private industry to bolster security and education in an...more

Do the 2021 Federal Ransomware Laws Foretell Passage of Federal Data Privacy Laws?

Bilzin Sumberg on 8/11/2021

In the last several weeks, the Executive and Legislative branches of the United States federal government have taken bipartisan measures to defend the country’s infrastructure from the critical national security threat posed...more

President Biden Issues National Security Memorandum on Improving Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 7/29/2021

On July 28, 2021, President Biden issued a “National Security Memorandum on Improving Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems” (the “ICS Memo”). The ICS Memo—a product of the 100-day cybersecurity initiative...more

Preparing for and Responding to Cybersecurity Incidents: What Critical Pipeline Owners and Operators Need to Do as TSA Announces...

Adams & Reese on 5/28/2021

On May 27, the Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration announced a Security Directive designed to “better identify, protect against, and respond to threats to critical companies in the...more

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