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New Cybersecurity Executive Order Revises Specific Federal Policies While Retaining Core Security Principles

Woods Rogers on 6/20/2025

On June 6, 2025, the Trump Administration issued a new Executive Order, Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity and Amending Executive Order 13694 and Executive Order 14144 (the EO) that contains...more

President Trump’s Cyber Mandate: Analysis of Executive Order on Strengthening U.S. Cybersecurity

Wiley Rein LLP on 6/16/2025

President Trump issued a cybersecurity Executive Order, “Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity” (Trump EO), along with a corresponding Fact Sheet on June 6, 2025. The Trump EO clears some of the...more

Heading into 2024, Federal AI Activity Ramps Up After AI Executive Order

Wiley Rein LLP on 12/22/2023

2023 has been a big year for AI with the landmark Executive Order for Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (EO) adding to the already busy and dynamic AI landscape. Issued less than two months ago, the EO has...more

Highlights From the Biden Administration Executive Order on AI

Foley & Lardner LLP on 11/17/2023

On October 30, 2023, President Biden signed the 53-page Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence that significantly advances the United States' policy framework...more

White House Ushers in New Era of Regulation With Landmark Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 11/8/2023

The AI executive order moves the U.S. closer to a broader unified approach on federal AI regulation, expanding on the AI Bill of Rights and NIST AI Risk Management Framework and focusing on the responsible development and...more

President Biden Signs Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence

Cozen O'Connor on 11/7/2023

On October 30, 2023, President Biden signed an Executive Order (EO) on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence. The Biden-Harris Administration’s sweeping artificial intelligence (AI)...more

National Security And Government Contractor Implications Of Biden AI Executive Order

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Government... on 11/6/2023

The Biden administration issued a widely anticipated executive order on artificial intelligence (“AI”) earlier this week. The Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence...more

An Overview of the White House’s Executive Order on Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence and OMB’s Draft...

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP on 11/3/2023

Overview of the Executive Order and OMB Memorandum - On October 30, 2023, President Joe Biden signed the much-anticipated Executive Order on Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI)....more

Akin Intelligence - October 2023

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 10/19/2023

Welcome to the October edition of Akin Intelligence. We continue to see bipartisan and international interest in artificial intelligence (AI) regulation. In the executive branch, agencies are working towards developing...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

Federal Government Provides Further Guidance And Draft Attestation Form For Software It Acquires

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Government... on 5/3/2023

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently published a draft version of a Secure Software Development Attestation Common Form. The draft Common Form is...more

CISA Seeks Comments on New Security Attestation for Software Procurements

Wiley Rein LLP on 5/1/2023

On April 27, 2023, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a Notice of Agency Information Collection Activities to solicit public comments on a...more

Quantum Computing: Examining the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act

Holland & Knight LLP on 1/17/2023

In the waning days of 2022 and the 117th Congress, President Biden signed H.R.7535, the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act, into law. The law recognizes the future threat that quantum decryption poses to federal...more

OMB Renews Commitment to EO14028 by Requiring SSDF Compliance in Federal Software Acquisition

Ankura on 10/26/2022

On September 14, 2022, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued much-anticipated guidance on the implementation of Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF) requirements for contractors (The “Guidance Memo”)...more

President’s Telecom Advisors Promote Zero Trust Architecture in Key Report

Wiley Rein LLP on 2/28/2022

What: On February 23, 2022, the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) approved a final draft of its forthcoming report to the President on Zero Trust and Trusted Identity Management. ...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

Executive Order Enhances Cybersecurity Requirements for Government Contractors

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer on 5/25/2021

In response to increasing cybersecurity threats, including the SolarWinds and Colonial Pipeline attacks, President Biden issued an Executive Order on May 12, 2021, that enhances cybersecurity requirements for federal...more

Cybersecurity for All: President Biden Issues Sweeping Cybersecurity Executive Order

Holland & Knight LLP on 5/17/2021

On May 12, 2021, President Joe Biden issued a comprehensive Executive Order (EO) on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity that promises sweeping changes in federal contracts for information technology (IT), cloud services and...more

President Biden Signs Executive Order Designed To Improve Federal Government Cybersecurity

WilmerHale on 5/17/2021

On Wednesday, May 12, 2021, President Biden issued an ambitious and sweeping Executive Order focused on combating digital threats to US networks and infrastructure. The Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity...more

Guarding the Grid: DOE Releases 100-Day Cybersecurity Pilot Program

Bracewell LLP on 4/26/2021

The February 2021 hack into Oldsmar, Florida’s water treatment system is a frightening reminder that critical infrastructure systems can be vulnerable to cyberattacks and that cyberattacks can jeopardize health and safety. In...more

Senate Passes IoT Cybersecurity Bill by Unanimous Consent

Mintz - ML Strategies on 11/19/2020

Last night, the Senate passed by unanimous consent H.R. 1668, the Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity Improvement Act. The House had previously passed the bill by voice vote in September after lengthy negotiations with...more

A Review of the OMB Guidelines Issued to Federal Agencies for Reporting Requirements to Congress That Redefined What Constitutes a...

Nossaman LLP on 8/8/2017

With the growing threat of cyberattacks, we thought it would be worthwhile to discuss a late 2016 change in reporting requirements for federal agencies that have suffered a data breach. The Office of Management and Budget’s...more

Cybersecurity Activity During Last Gasp of Lame-Duck Congress

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 12/15/2014

This week, there has been a flurry of last-minute action on various cybersecurity items in both the House and Senate. Much of the legislative activity involved modest adjustments to, or confirmation of, the authority or...more

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