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Where Does the Cybersecurity Executive Order Hit and Miss the Mark?

The White House Immigration Action Newsletter

by Cozen O'Connor on 3/12/2013

It has been a busy few weeks here at the White House. Last Friday, the President met with leaders from the faith community to discuss the need to fix the broken immigration system, focusing on the growing consensus building...more

White House Issues Executive Order on CyberSecurity

by Timothy Blank, Kate Ericsson, Vernon Francis, Vivian Maese | Dechert LLP on 3/1/2013

The Obama Administration has long expressed concerns about the vulnerability of America’s critical infrastructure to cyber-attack. On February 12, 2012, the day of the President’s State of the Union address, 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

New FAR Rules Likely For "Critical Infrastructure" Contractors

by Eric Aaserud | Perkins Coie on 2/22/2013

On February 12, 2013, President Obama signed an Executive Order (the Order) intended to enhance the cybersecurity of the country's critical infrastructure. According to the Order, "[t]he cyber threat to critical...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

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

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

Where Does the Cybersecurity Executive Order Hit and Miss the Mark? [Video]

by LXBN on 2/15/2013

Immediately following the failure of the Cybersecurity Act of 2012, we had Steptoe & Johnson’s Stewart Baker join us on LXBN TV. Baker, formerly General Counsel for the National Security Agency and the first Assistant...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

CYBERSECURITY CLIENT ALERT: White House Issues Long-Awaited Cybersecurity Executive Order, New Presidential Directives for...

by Mary Beth Bosco, Amy Davenport, Norma Krayem | Patton Boggs LLP on 2/14/2013

The White House issued a long-awaited Executive Order (EO) “Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity” which directs the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other agencies to quickly advance efforts to...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

Obama Issues Long Awaited Cybersecurity Executive Order

by Christopher DeLacy, Joel Edward Roberson | Holland & Knight LLP on 2/13/2013

On February 12, 2013, President Barack Obama issued the long awaited cybersecurity Executive Order, which will establish national cybersecurity standards for critical infrastructure. This cybersecurity Executive Order was...more

The White House Issues An Executive Order On Cybersecurity

by Dennis Olle, Pedro Pavon | Carlton Fields on 2/13/2013

During the State of the Union address, President Obama announced that he had signed and issued an Executive Order on cybersecurity. The Executive Order calls for cooperation and information sharing between the private...more

A Really Exciting Time for Immigration

by Cozen O'Connor on 2/7/2013

Friends, This has been an exciting week. Last Tuesday President Obama traveled to Nevada to redouble our Administration’s efforts to work with Congress on commonsense reform to fix our broken immigration system so...more

White House Immigration Newsletter December 2012/January 2013

by Marcy Stras | Cozen O'Connor on 1/11/2013

In this edition of the newsletter, you will read about the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) recent publication of its Final Rule to support family unity during waiver process; and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration...more

Obama Administration Tough on Border Security [Infographic]

by Betsy Kim | Lawyers.com on 1/10/2013

The Obama Administration has cracked down on illegal immigration, spending more money on immigration enforcement than on all other federal law enforcement agencies combined in the last fiscal year, according to a The...more

Top 11 Filing Tips For Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals

by Andrews Law, PLC on 11/7/2012

To ensure that your request is accepted for processing, it is important that you review your entire request package before you file with USCIS. A consultation with an experienced immigration attorney is highly recommended to...more

Top 11 Filing Tips for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

by Andrews Law, PLC on 9/20/2012

President Obama and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that certain foreign nationals who were brought to the U.S. before the age of 16, and who were under age 31 as of June 15, 2012, can...more

Non-Citizens in LGBT Marriages Avoid Deportation

by Lawyers.com on 8/22/2012

Immigrants who are part of stable, same-sex couples in the United States will face a lower chance of deportation if the policies of the Department of Homeland Security and the Obama administration are actually written down....more

Implementing the President’s DREAM Act-Inspired Executive Order

by Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 8/21/2012

Official Application Instructions from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (the “DREAM Act”) was first introduced to Congress in August 2001. The...more

IT'S NOT EXACTLY DREAM ACT. THE PROVISIONS ARE CORNERSTONE OF WHAT DREAM ACT WAS - DAVID H. NACHMAN, ESQ.

by NPZ Law Group, P.C. (f/k/a Nachman &... on 7/1/2012

“About a year ago, John Morton, who is in charge of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Division of the Department of Homeland Security, passed through what was called the Prosecutorial Discretion Memorandum. It...more

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DHS › Barack Obama

The White House Immigration Action Newsletter

White House Issues Executive Order on CyberSecurity

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

New FAR Rules Likely For "Critical Infrastructure" Contractors

President Obama Issues Executive Order on Cybersecurity

President Obama Issues Long-Awaited Cybersecurity Executive Order

Executive Order and Policy Directive Promotes Cybersecurity Cooperation and Intelligence Sharing

Where Does the Cybersecurity Executive Order Hit and Miss the Mark? [Video]

White House Issues Cybersecurity Executive Order

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

President Issues an Executive Order on Cybersecurity

President Obama Signs Cybersecurity Executive Order

CYBERSECURITY CLIENT ALERT: White House Issues Long-Awaited Cybersecurity Executive Order, New Presidential Directives for...

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update: President Issues Cybersecurity Executive Order

Legal Alert: New Regulation Under Cybersecurity Executive Order

Obama Issues Long Awaited Cybersecurity Executive Order

The White House Issues An Executive Order On Cybersecurity

A Really Exciting Time for Immigration

White House Immigration Newsletter December 2012/January 2013

Obama Administration Tough on Border Security [Infographic]

Top 11 Filing Tips For Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals

Top 11 Filing Tips for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

Non-Citizens in LGBT Marriages Avoid Deportation

Implementing the President’s DREAM Act-Inspired Executive Order

IT'S NOT EXACTLY DREAM ACT. THE PROVISIONS ARE CORNERSTONE OF WHAT DREAM ACT WAS - DAVID H. NACHMAN, ESQ.

Where Does the Cybersecurity Executive Order Hit and Miss the Mark? [Video]

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