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REGULATORY: FERC: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Bulk Electric System Cyber Security Standards

by King & Spalding on 5/8/2013

On April 18, 2013, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (the “NOPR”) stating that it intends to approve Version 5 of the Critical Infrastructure Protection (“CIP”)...more

Energy Law Alert: FERC Approves New CIP Reliability Standards Despite Concern Over Ambiguity In Multiple Areas

by Andrew Gibbons | Leonard, Street and Deinard on 4/23/2013

On April 18, 2013, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking recommending approval of the Version 5 Critical Infrastructure Protection Reliability Standards proposed by the North American...more

FERC Proposes to Approve Overhaul of NERC Cybersecurity Standards

by J. Daniel Skees, Stephen Spina | Morgan Lewis on 4/23/2013

Major revisions to the existing cybersecurity requirements for electric utilities will focus on greater protections for the most critical assets but will also ensure that all assets receive some level of protection....more

Out With the Old, in With the New – CIP Version 5 on the Horizon

by Daniel Frank, Alison Graab, Meghan R. Gruebner, Jennifer Herbert, Alexandra Konieczny, Mark Thibodeaux | Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP on 4/23/2013

Electric utilities and other generation and transmission companies will be subject to new cybersecurity standards under a proposed rule issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). FERC proposed to approve the...more

NIST Holds First Workshop on Executive Order Cybersecurity Framework

by Michael Baader, Jamie Barnett, Dismas Locaria, Anthony Rosso, Sejal Shah, Jason Wool, Brian Zimmet | Venable LLP on 4/11/2013

On April 3, 2013, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) held a workshop at the Department of Commerce in which it offered a sneak preview of the Cybersecurity Framework required under the recently-issued...more

European Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy publish opinion on the proposed General Data Protection Regulation

by Cynthia O'Donoghue | Reed Smith on 3/15/2013

Following the lead of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), which already released its draft report (see our prior blog), 20 February, the European Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and...more

White House Cyber Security Coordinator Warns Regulations Are Needed

by Dennis Olle, Pedro Pavon | Carlton Fields on 3/6/2013

A sweeping cyber security law is unlikely to pass any time soon. White House Cyber Security Coordinator Michael Daniel warned last week that President Obama's Executive Order on Cyber Security (EO) could result in new...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update: NIST Issues Request for Information on Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Practices

by John Beahn, Antoinette Bush, Joshua Gruenspecht, Stuart D. Levi, Ivan A. Schlager | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 3/5/2013

On February 26, following close on the heels of the recent executive order setting forth the administration’s approach to the regulation of critical infrastructure network security, the National Institute of Standards and...more

REGULATORY: U.S. Regulatory; EU Regulatory: Cybersecurity Efforts to Secure Critical Infrastructure including the Energy Sector...

by King & Spalding on 3/4/2013

In recent years, the security of computerized data and the ability of public and private entities to respond to unauthorized penetration of computer networks has been intensely debated by policymakers. The risks associated...more

European Commission Publishes Cybersecurity Strategy and a Proposed Directive on Network and Information Security that Would...

by King & Spalding on 2/25/2013

On 7 February 2013, the European Commission published two cybersecurity documents designed to provide a comprehensive vision of how European Union Member States, national authorities, and private industry will prevent and...more

What You Should Be Doing Now to Prepare for Implementation of the Cybersecurity Executive Order

by Gerald Ferguson, Theodore Kobus III | BakerHostetler on 2/25/2013

A tempting response to the Cybersecurity Executive Order (the "Order"), announced by President Obama at his State of the Union address, is to ignore it. It is vague in key particulars, such as which companies are part of the...more

Executive Order Begins Process Of Strengthening Nation’s Cybersecurity And Critical Infrastructure

by Sharon Klein, Jeffrey Vagle | Pepper Hamilton LLP on 2/22/2013

During his State of the Union address on February 12, 2013, President Barack Obama announced his signing of a long-anticipated Executive Order on cybersecurity. After months of discussions with technology companies the...more

Utilities Sector To Be a Focus of Executive Order Directing Development of Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Framework

by Joshua Belcher, Michael Klein, Ahren Tryon | Cozen O'Connor on 2/20/2013

Little more than a week after reports of cyber attacks targeted at the Department of Energy, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, President Obama declared in his State of the Union address that these forms of...more

President Obama Issues Executive Order on Cybersecurity

by King & Spalding on 2/18/2013

On February 12, 2013, President Obama issued a long-anticipated Executive Order concerning cybersecurity entitled Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. The Executive Order marks a major milestone in the Federal...more

Addressing the Cyber Threat: Cybersecurity Executive Order Issued and CISPA Introduced

by Mark Melodia, Timothy Nagle | Reed Smith on 2/15/2013

The long-awaited executive order entitled “Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity” was issued on Tuesday, along with a companion Presidential Policy Directive and mention by the President in the State of the Union...more

President Obama Signs Executive Order on Cybersecurity

by J. Daniel Skees, Stephen Spina | Morgan Lewis on 2/15/2013

Order will create a voluntary Cybersecurity Framework for designated critical infrastructure within a year. On February 12, President Barack Obama signed an executive order directing the Department of Homeland Security...more

President Obama Issues Long-Awaited Cybersecurity Executive Order

by Seepan Parseghian, Timothy Toohey | Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. on 2/15/2013

As President Obama delivered his fifth State of the Union speech to Congress on February 12, 2013, he simultaneously issued a highly anticipated Executive Order (“the Order”) focused on improving cybersecurity in the United...more

President Signs Cybersecurity Executive Order

by Amy Malone | Mintz Levin - Privacy & Security on 2/15/2013

“America must … face the rapidly growing threat from cyber-attacks. Now, we know hackers steal people’s identities and infiltrate private emails. We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets. Now our...more

Executive Order and Policy Directive Promotes Cybersecurity Cooperation and Intelligence Sharing

by Bob Scott | Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 2/15/2013

On February 12, 2012, President Obama signed an Executive Order as well as a complementary Presidential Policy Directive intended to improve the flow of information and cyber-threat intelligence between government agencies...more

White House Issues Cybersecurity Executive Order

by Christopher DeLacy, Jason Klitenic, Joel Edward Roberson | Holland & Knight LLP on 2/15/2013

The long-awaited cybersecurity executive order (EO), which will ultimately establish national cybersecurity standards for critical infrastructure, was issued by President Obama on February 12, 2013. At the same time, the...more

President Obama’s Cybersecurity Executive Order and What it Means For Your Organization

by Elizabeth Johnson, Lynn Percival | Poyner Spruill LLP on 2/15/2013

On February 12, President Obama signed a much-anticipated cybersecurity executive order intended to “enhance the security and resilience” of U.S. critical infrastructure. The executive order is very similar to a draft leaked...more

President Issues an Executive Order on Cybersecurity

by Bill Cobb, Anna Trimble | Jackson Walker on 2/15/2013

On February 12, 2013, President Barack Obama signed an ExecutiveOrder on cybersecurity designed to defend the nation's critical infrastructure. By passing Congress — which could not agree on a legislative proposal — the...more

President Obama Signs Cybersecurity Executive Order

by Amy Mushahwar, Mercedes Kelley Tunstall | Ballard Spahr LLP on 2/14/2013

Last night, President Obama signed a long-anticipated Executive Order, "Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity," which directs the federal government to share cyberthreat information with the owners of systems that...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update: President Issues Cybersecurity Executive Order

by John Beahn, Antoinette Bush, Joshua Gruenspecht, Stuart D. Levi, Ivan A. Schlager | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 2/14/2013

On February 12, 2013, President Obama signed both an executive order and a presidential directive that together set forth the administration’s approach to two key cybersecurity related issues: (i) regulating critical...more

Legal Alert: New Regulation Under Cybersecurity Executive Order

by Paul Forshay, Daniel Frank, Alison Graab, Meghan R. Gruebner, Jennifer Herbert, Alexandra Konieczny, Sandra Safro, Mark Thibodeaux, David Wochner | Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP on 2/13/2013

President Obama yesterday issued an Executive Order to address the growing cyber threat to the Nation’s “critical infrastructure,” a term broadly defined to potentially cover natural gas and oil pipelines, storage sites and...more

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