The Justice Insiders Podcast - Human Beings: Cybersecurity's Most Fragile Attack Surface
Protecting Our Nation’s Data: Cybersecurity Compliance for Government Contractors
SEC’s New Cyber Rules for Publicly Traded Companies — The Consumer Finance Podcast
2023 DSIR Deeper Dive: How International and Domestic Regulatory Enforcement Spotlights the Information Governance Tensions Between ‘There’ and ‘Here’ and Between ‘Keep’ and ‘Delete’
2023 DSIR Deeper Dive: Plaintiffs’ Attorneys Are Trying to Assert a New Cause of Action Against Universities Based on an Old Law Regulating Videotape Service Providers
Episode 293 -- Catching Up with California and Other State Privacy Laws
How to Fix the Cyber Incident Reporting Mess--DHS Weighs In
Regulatory Phishing Podcast - The Impact of Cybersecurity Compliance on Corporate Transactions
The Justice Insiders Podcast: Incidents in the Material World: SEC Adopts New Cybersecurity Rules
Episode 288 -- SEC Adopts Robust New Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules
2023 DSIR Report Deeper Dive into the Data
Cybersecurity Threats Facing Food and Agribusiness Companies & the Preparation and Protection Safeguards to Help Mitigate Them
2022 DSIR Deeper Dive: OCR’s Right of Access Initiative
2022 DSIR Report Deeper Dive: FTC
2022 DSIR Deeper Dive: Vendor Incidents
Unauthorized Access: An Inside Look at Incident Response
The State of Cyber: Breaking Down Recent Rules and Regulations
Mandatory Cyber Incident Reporting: Pros, Cons, and Next Steps
Cyberside Chats: Preserving Legal Privilege After a Cybersecurity Incident
Debra Geroux and Scott Wrobel on Responding to Data Breaches
On January 15, 2025, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council published a proposed rule (the FAR CUI Rule) that would amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to impose government-wide cybersecurity, training, and...more
After years of anticipation, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council has announced the arrival of its proposed rule to enhance the safeguarding of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) in federal contracts (the...more
Part of the Biden Administration’s push to enhance U.S. cybersecurity capabilities has focused on imposing new requirements on government contractors. The 2023 National Cybersecurity Strategy suggested, for example, that...more
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) issued the proposed Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) rules that will implement the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program. These rules, which...more
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) published a finalized rule on March 12, 2024, which expands access to defense contractors who wish to participate in the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Cybersecurity (CS) Program....more
Earlier this month the Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”) Council released two draft rules which would impose new cybersecurity requirements for federal contractors. The proposed rules, Cyber Threat and Incident Reporting...more
WHAT: As we previously reported here, on October 3, 2023, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FAR Council) proposed a pair of major cybersecurity rules intended to implement key parts of President Biden’s May 2021...more
In what can best be described as a tsunami of cybersecurity regulation, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council—consisting of the Department of Defense (DoD), General Services Administration (GSA), and National...more
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced plans to use the False Claims Act (FCA) to pursue cybersecurity-related fraud by government contractors, subcontractors and grant recipients, including for providing...more
For over a year now, federal defense contractors have been required to comply with Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) Clause 252.204-7012, Safeguarding Covered Defense Information and Cyber Incident...more
The Department of Defense (DOD) and its component services and agencies are taking several independent steps to assess and enhance their cyber and supply chain security that will directly or indirectly affect DOD contractors...more
ITAR is an important area of regulation for government contractors. This includes firms in the defense, technical services, information technology, cyber-security, military training and DOD-funded R&D fields. These...more
Kilpatrick Townsend’s Gunjan Talati, partner in the Government Contracts and Construction & Infrastructure Group, recently moderated a panel for the Association of Corporate Counsel National Capital Region chapter on Defense...more
On October 4, 2016, the Department of Defense (“DoD”) published a final rule implementing mandatory cyber incident reporting requirements for DoD contractors and subcontractors. The rule, which is effective as of November 3,...more
On December 30, 2015, the Department of Defense (DoD) issued a second interim rule on Network Penetration Reporting and Contracting for Cloud Services, amending an earlier version issued on August 26, 2015. The new, amended...more
At the end of 2015, the US Department of Defense (DoD) issued a second interim rule, effective immediately, modifying cyber security control requirements it issued earlier in 2015. In particular, this second interim rule (1)...more
The United States Department of Defense promulgated an “interim” rule, effective August 26, 2015, which placed imposing and costly burdens on all DoD contractors and subcontractors (including small businesses and commercial...more
This update will cover two things: (1) the new (yes, again) Department of Defense cybersecurity interim/final rule on reporting cyber incidents by contractors / subcontractors and (2) the money to fund these new rules and...more
The Department of Defense (DoD) has published regulations that require DoD contractors to report cyber incidents impacting unclassified DoD contractor systems. The new regulations mandate compliance with elements of the...more
The Department of Defense (DoD) released interim rules implementing provisions of the 2013 and 2015 National Defense Authorization Acts. The rules, released on Aug. 26, 2015, are effective immediately and establish the...more
On August 26, 2015, the Department of Defense (DoD) published a long-awaited Interim Rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to require “rapid” reporting of “cyber incidents” that result in...more