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White House Seeks Public Input on AI Action Plan

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 2/14/2025

The White House is gathering industry feedback on AI governance, giving stakeholders an opportunity to shape future policy....more

Biden Administration Moves to Restrict Outbound Investment to China

A&O Shearman on 8/11/2023

On August 9, 2023, the Biden Administration issued a long-awaited Executive Order (the EO) that is intended to address the potential national security threats posed by outbound investment from the United States to certain...more

UPDATE: Secure Software Development Attestation: A(nother) Government Requirement

Fenwick & West LLP on 5/30/2023

As follow-on guidance to Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) September 14, 2022 memo and the associated Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity from May 2021, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...more

China’s Cross-Border Data Transfer Security Assessment Measures Take Effect September 1

Morgan Lewis on 8/1/2022

The Cyberspace Administration of China’s Measures for Security Assessment of Cross-border Data Transfer have retroactive effect for cross-border data transfers conducted prior to September 1, 2022. Businesses have a grace...more

U.S. Dept. of Energy Seeks Comment on Updated Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 12/1/2021

Shortly before Thanksgiving, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued a request for public comment on Version 2.0 of its Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model (C2M2), which DOE released in July 2021 to help organizations...more

White House to Introduce ‘Zero Trust’ Cybersecurity Policy to Federal Agencies

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 10/6/2021

Last month, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released draft guidance to implement a Zero Trust cybersecurity policy government-wide. OMB and CISA are seeking...more

China’s New Draft Encryption Law

Perkins Coie on 9/4/2019

The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress released the Encryption Law of the People’s Republic of China (Draft) for public comment on July 5, 2019 (the “2019 Draft”). The Encryption Law is being enacted to do...more

FERC Commissioners Unanimously Support Proposal to Expand Cyber Incident Reporting Rules

Holland & Knight LLP on 12/29/2017

On December 21, 2017, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) unanimously voted to direct the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) to modify existing CIP Reliability Standard (CIP-008-5)...more

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