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Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity – Evolving Incident Response Obligations, Integral to Effective Risk Management

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Just over a year ago, the White House issued its long-awaited National Cybersecurity Strategy, with an emphasis on defending Critical Infrastructure, promoting public and private collaboration, and safeguarding...more

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U.S. Unveils Historic Sanctions Against Intellexa Spyware for Endangering Privacy and National Security

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Editor's Note: In a historic and bold move, the U.S. government has implemented unprecedented sanctions against the Intellexa Consortium and its key figures for their roles in deploying spyware that jeopardizes privacy and...more

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Dragos Outlines Voltzite’s Attacks Against Critical Infrastructure

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In a joint release last week, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and other federal agencies issued a chilling Advisory about the ongoing attacks by Volt Typhoon on U.S. critical infrastructure. Volt...more

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

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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

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Biden Administration’s Voluntary AI Safety Agreement

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The Biden administration announced that it brokered a voluntary agreement with several of the biggest technology and artificial intelligence (AI) companies. The agreement, available here, has the companies taking a number of...more

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Recommendations for Managing Cybersecurity Threats in the Manufacturing Sector

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In the hyper-connected era of smart manufacturing, accelerated by “Industry 4.0,” the manufacturing sector is undergoing a digital revolution. By leveraging technologies such as advanced automation, artificial intelligence,...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

How a Zero-Day Flaw in MOVEit Led to a Global Ransomware Attack

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In an era where our lives are ever more intertwined with technology, the security of digital platforms is a matter of national concern. A recent large-scale cyberattack affecting several U.S. federal agencies and numerous...more

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Biden Administration announces “National Cybersecurity Strategy”

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On March 2, the Biden Administration released a “National Cybersecurity Strategy,” which it says takes a comprehensive approach to securing cyberspace for all and ensuring the United States is in the best position to take...more

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The North Korean Crypto Threat

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Executive Summary - The North Korean threat to the crypto ecosystem is the highest form of immediate risk to the crypto-economy driven by a regime that seeks to profit from its misuse to reinforce its regime and fuel all its...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] 2nd National Forum on Team Telecom - April 25th, Washington, DC

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Gain critical strategies for managing reviews in the new Team Telecom environment. The American Conference Institute’s 2nd National Team Telecom Conference will take place in Washington D.C. on April 25, 2022, one day...more

Guidepost Solutions LLC

[Webinar] From The China Initiative to Nation-State Threats: The US Government’s New Enforcement Priority – China + Russia - March...

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On February 23, 2022, Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen announced that the DOJ’s China Initiative was officially ending. He also announced DOJ’s new national security strategy - Strategy for Countering Nation-State...more

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Department of Homeland Security Issues “SHIELDS UP” Advisory for All Organizations Regardless of Size

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This week the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) issued a “SHIELDS UP” advisory.  While it does not identify specific threats in the advisory, CISA states that the “Russian...more

Nossaman LLP

Critical Infrastructure Facing Multiple, Immediate Threats

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According to a January 27, 2022 statement from the White House: "Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced it will extend the Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Cybersecurity Initiative to the water sector. ...more

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DHS/CISA Mandates Fixing Security Vulnerabilities, Warning Companies to be Vigilant

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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a sweeping binding directive to federal agencies to patch hundreds of cybersecurity vulnerabilities that are considered major risks for cyber actors to cause...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

FBI: More Awareness, Due Diligence Needed To Fight China in New ‘Space Race’ for Data

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Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 10 (October, 2021) - Conducting a risk analysis is a basic tenet of security compliance, with the overarching goal of understanding where protected health information (PHI) “lives” in an...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

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

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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

Wiley Rein LLP

[Webinar] Emerging Threats in National Security: Is Any Network Safe? Malicious Third Party Code - September 14th, 1:00 pm - 2:15...

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This webinar focuses on the role of the U.S. government and Biden Administration in protecting American cybersecurity with respect to: - The prevalence and spread of malicious third party code; - Internet infiltration,...more

Bilzin Sumberg

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

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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

Mayer Brown

President Biden Issues National Security Memorandum on Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity

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On July 28, 2021, President Biden signed a national security memorandum that seeks to “significantly improve” the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure systems....more

Lighthouse

Cybersecurity Defense: Biden Administration Executive Order a Great Start Towards a More Robust National Framework

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On May 12, President Biden issued a landmark Executive Order (“the Order”) aimed at improving the country’s cybersecurity threat defense. This Order is an attempt to create a “whole of government” response to increasingly...more

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Biden Administration Sets Sights on Cybersecurity with Executive Order

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The Biden Administration is zeroing in on cybersecurity.  In the wake of a high-profile wave of cyberattacks, including the SolarWinds supply chain attack and the more recent Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, President...more

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U.S. Department of Energy Seeks Comments on Securing Electric Infrastructure from Attacks from Foreign Adversaries

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On April 22, 2021, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) called for public comments on policies that the Administration should pursue to secure the U.S. electric grid from exploitation and attack by foreign adversaries. The DOE...more

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DHS and Cyber: What Should Companies Expect?

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Megan Brown sits down with one of Wiley’s newest attorneys, Sam Kaplan, former Assistant Secretary for Cyber, Infrastructure, Risk and Resilience Policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), to discuss the...more

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Policy Outlook: How The 2020 Election Outcomes Will Impact Your Business - Health Policy

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In this session, health law policy authorities discussed changes likely in 2021 in a Biden Administration and how these changes will impact business objectives and strategies for health industry stakeholders...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Insider Cyber Threats From Outside the Office

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Insider threats continue to be pervasive and real. Last month’s indictment of a Russian national accused of conspiring to recruit a U.S. company’s employee to carry out a cyberattack is a sharp reminder of that. According to...more

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