On December 1, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a consent order against Illuminate Education, Inc. (Illuminate), a prominent provider of educational technology solutions, for alleged failures in protecting...more
On November 19, 2025, the European Commission formally unveiled a “digital omnibus” legislative proposal aimed at simplifying the EU’s privacy, cyber, data and AI regulatory frameworks. This is also in response to growing...more
11/26/2025
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On November 10, 2025, the Department of Defense (DoD), also referred to as the Department of War (DoW), officially began rolling out its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Final Rule, marking the start of the...more
11/14/2025
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Federal funding from the full-year Continuing Resolution (CR) expired on September 30. Without the necessary votes in the Senate to pass a clean CR, the federal government shut down on October 1. Since then, most official...more
The push for digital assets legislation has slowed since its peak in July, largely due to Congress's August recess and its current focus on essential funding and defense authorization bills. However, the Senate Banking...more
On September 24, 2025, DoD announced CSRMC, a new framework to replace the long-standing RMF as DoD’s primary set of guidelines for protecting its systems and networks against cyber threats. The RMF, in place since 2014,...more
The Department of Defense (DoD) recently published in the Federal Register its long-awaited final rule (the Rule) amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to formally implement the Cybersecurity...more
Telecommunications carriers must continue to adhere to a 2024 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Order that substantially broadened carriers’ breach notification obligations, requiring that they disclose breaches of any...more