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Governmental Practice Cybersecurity and Data Protection: 2024 Recap & 2025 Forecast Alert

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 1/8/2025

To kick off the New Year (and as is now tradition, since we put out a similar Recap & Forecast last year), Sheppard Mullin’s Governmental Practice Cybersecurity & Data Protection Team has prepared a cybersecurity-focused 2024...more

Final Rule Expands Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity Program Eligibility Criteria

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 4/8/2024

On March 12, the Department of Defense (DOD) promulgated a final rule that expands the eligibility criteria for the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Cybersecurity Program, a voluntary initiative aimed at bolstering the DIB’s...more

CISA Proposes Sweeping Cybersecurity Incident Reporting for U.S. Companies

Paul Hastings LLP on 4/2/2024

On March 27, 2024, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (“CISA”) released proposed regulations requiring expansive new cybersecurity incident and ransomware payment reporting across sixteen “critical...more

Recommendations for Managing Cybersecurity Threats in the Manufacturing Sector

Foley & Lardner LLP on 9/25/2023

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

Critical Infrastructure Industry Drafted: Welcome to the Cyber War

McCarter & English Blog: Government Contracts... on 4/11/2022

For just shy of a decade, the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) has had to operate under rules dictating the safeguarding of Controlled Unclassified Information, along with a strict 72-hour notification requirement if/when/should...more

Cybersecurity Executive Order Establishes Framework to Strengthen Cybersecurity Elements of Federal Government Contracts

Jones Day on 6/2/2021

The Situation: On May 12, 2021, President Biden issued an "Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity," which calls for "bold" and extensive action designed to update and standardize requirements and procedures...more

President Biden Calls for Significant National Cybersecurity Improvements

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC on 6/1/2021

President Biden recently signed an executive order, “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” signaling a significant increase in regulatory oversight of government contractors’ cybersecurity programs. This action came on the...more

Biden’s Cybersecurity Executive Order

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 5/19/2021

On May 12, 2021, the Biden Administration issued its much anticipated “Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity.” Below are provisions we believe will be of most interest to contractors, as well as any company...more

President Biden’s Cybersecurity Executive Order Focuses on IT and Software Supply Chain Vulnerabilities

Perkins Coie on 5/18/2021

On May 12, 2021, President Biden signed a sweeping Executive Order (EO) to protect federal government networks and software supply chains against increasing threats of attacks from malicious cyber actors, setting the stage...more

Executive Order on Cybersecurity Sets Aggressive Timeline

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 5/17/2021

The Colonial Pipeline cyberattack prompted the issuance of a long-awaited executive order (EO) on improving U.S. cybersecurity. The EO mandates that, within six months, all federal agencies implement multi-factor...more

DOD Issues Class Deviation and Implementation Guidance for CARES Act Section 3610 Authorizing Potential Recovery by Federal...

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 4/10/2020

On April 8, 2020, the Department of Defense (“DOD”) issued Class Deviation Number: 2020-00013 authorizing Contracting Officers (“COs”) to deviate from the principles listed in Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”) Part 31...more

DOD and Other Agencies Seek to Enhance Contractors’ Cyber and Supply Chain Security

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 12/20/2018

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

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