Critical Infrastructure Sectors, Barack Obama, National Security

New Executive Order Allows for Sanctions Related to Cybersecurity

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 4/24/2015

On April 1, 2015, President Obama issued a groundbreaking Executive Order (E.O.) enabling the United States to sanction persons that have (1) participated in malicious cyber-enabled activities constituting a “significant...more

New Executive Order Authorizes Economic Sanctions to Combat Malicious Cyber Activity

King & Spalding on 4/10/2015

Calling cyber threats “one of the most serious economic and national security challenges to the United States” and declaring a national emergency relating to those threats, on April 1, 2015, President Obama issued an...more

Obama Administration Recognizes Cyber Threats to U.S. Critical Infrastructure as a National Emergency

BakerHostetler on 4/8/2015

Many cybersecurity experts have warned that the United States is already engaged in covert cyber warfare against hostile actors around the world. The latest cybersecurity Executive Order reflects formal recognition that,...more

Executive Order Blocks Property of Those Engaging in Malicious Cyber Activities

Morgan Lewis on 4/7/2015

The executive order enables US government agencies to block the assets of any foreign person determined to have engaged in malicious cyber-enabled activities....more

U.S. Authorizes Targeted Sanctions Against Overseas Cyber Threats

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 4/6/2015

Cyber threats are one of the U.S.’s top security threats. In just the past year, there has been a significant increase in the frequency, scale and sophistication of cyber intrusions and attacks – many of them originating...more

U.S. Responding To Cyber-Espionage: White House Acknowledges Increasing Threat

Troutman Pepper on 3/15/2013

No longer cut from the cloth of 007’s expensive suits, fast cars or well-mixed drinks, present-day espionage is carried out, to a great extent, through computer screens, proxy servers and spoofed e-mail addresses. Dubbed...more

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