Podcast - Cybersecurity Roundup: Analyzing New and Proposed Rules for Contractors
Cybersecurity Insights: Updates on CMMC Implementation and CUI Identification
Podcast - Third-Party Assessments and NIST SP 800-171
Third-Party Assessments and NIST SP 800-171
[Podcast] AI Risk Management: A Discussion with NIST’s Elham Tabassi on the NIST AI Risk Management Framework
Compliance into the Weeds - ChatGPT for the Compliance Professional
Nota Bene Episode 150: Building an AI Risk Management Framework with Siraj Husain
DoD Cyber: A Conversation with Melissa Vice, COO for DoD’s Vulnerability Disclosure Program
Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Year in Review: Major Breaches, Changes in the Law, and Upcoming Trends
The Government Contracts Cyber Café: Recent Developments Update
How to Respond to President Obama's Cybersecurity Executive Order
The plan seeks to limit AI regulation at the federal and state level, encourages rapid development of AI infrastructure, and warns against ideological bias in models....more
On July 23, 2025, President Trump released his Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan, with the aim of ushering in an era of American dominance in the rapidly emerging technology. The AI Action Plan delivers on a promise...more
To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following....more
As required under the October 30, 2023, Executive Order 14110 on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the White House issued a memorandum providing further direction on...more
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
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
On July 26, NIST released a final version of its Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile (GenAI Profile), a cross-sectoral profile of and companion to the AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF) (for further detail on the AI...more
As part of NIST’s recent mandate to formalize AI Testing set forth in President Joe Biden’s Executive Order on AI, NIST recently released a testbed called Dioptra that can be utilized to conduct evaluations to assess AI...more
Welcome to the April-May edition of Akin Intelligence. This edition is a double header, covering both months as we prepare for the launch of our new AI Hub—a one-stop resource for AI coverage that will launch soon. Starting...more
On April 29, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the release of four draft publications intended to help improve the safety, security, and trustworthiness of artificial intelligence (“AI”) systems. These...more
As the development and use of AI continues to grow, the potential for security and safety incidents harming organizations and the public increases. Updated reporting and tracking processes for AI security and safety incidents...more
Companies should consider how new AI risk standards may align to their operations and whether to comment on the draft standards to shape their development. On April 29, 2024, the White House announced that several federal...more
President Joe Biden’s October 2023 Executive Order on AI directed agencies to institute a significant number of actions on AI. On April 29, 2024, the White House announced that federal agencies had completed “all of the...more
We have now reached the 180-day mark since the White House Executive Order (EO) on the Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Development of AI and we are seeing a flurry of mandated actions being completed. See here for a summary of...more
Trade secrets have become a de facto intellectual property right for securing valuable artificial intelligence information. Despite regulatory trends toward greater transparency of AI models, federal policy acknowledges,...more
What do you think is going to be scarier—artificial intelligence (AI) or the government’s effort to regulate AI? On October 30, 2023, the White House issued Executive Order (E.O.) 14410, Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy...more
The Department of Commerce has launched the US AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC), a multistakeholder body tasked with developing AI safety standards and practices. The AISIC is currently composed of over 200 members...more
On February 7, 2024, California State Senator Scott Wiener introduced SB 1047, which is titled the “Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Systems Act.” The bill is designed to impose additional due...more
Last week, the White House issued an update on President Biden’s October 30, 2023 Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (the “AI EO” or “EO”). The update detailed...more
Key Areas for Comment in the Request for Information - Developing guidelines, standards, and best practices for AI safety and security. Developing a companion resource to the Risk Management Framework for generative...more
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the UK National Cyber Security Centre (UK NCSC), along with partner agencies from 17 nations, have released Guidelines for Secure AI System Development (the...more
On October 30, 2023, the Biden administration released a far-reaching executive order (EO) on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The EO issues directives related to the use...more
A year in review for the ChatGPT (chatbot generative pre-trained transformer) — and a look ahead at the global response to AI & which governance “guardrails” are required. On November 30th, 2023, the world will celebrate...more
November has been a busy month in artificial intelligence on the international, federal, and state levels. The last several weeks have seen what is probably an unprecedented amount of activity regarding artificial...more
Over the past several months, federal lawmakers have continued exploring regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) through hearings and legislative proposals. Amidst many other Congressional priorities, legislators seem set...more