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President Obama Issues Directive on Government Cyber Incident Response

August 1, 2016 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

Last week, President Obama issued a new Presidential Policy Directive (PPD) establishing principles to govern the federal government’s response to cyber incidents, “whether involving government or private sector entities.”  Titled “PPD-41,” the document also designates the lead federal agencies for so-called significant cyber incidents and creates an “architecture for coordinating the broader Federal Government response” […]

Filed Under: Cybersecurity, Data Protection, Data Security, Digital Crimes, National Security, Regulation

Department of Justice Indicts Seven Iranians for State-Sponsored Hacking

March 27, 2016 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

The Department of Justice has announced the indictment of seven Iranian hackers alleged to work for the Iranian government on charges stemming from a coordinated string of distributed denial of service (“DDoS”) attacks primarily against U.S. financial institutions from 2011 to 2013.  One of the hackers is also charged with hacking into the supervisory control […]

Filed Under: Cybercrime, Digital Crimes, Enforcement, International, National Security Tagged With: Department of Justice, Prosecution

Administration Seeks to Renegotiate Controversial Cybersecurity Export Control

March 4, 2016 By Jason Waite and Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

The Obama administration will reportedly seek to renegotiate a controversial cybersecurity export control rule required to be implemented into U.S. regulations by the Commerce Department under the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies.   The Wassenaar Arrangement is based on a multilateral agreement reached by the founding countries in […]

Filed Under: Cybersecurity, National Security, Regulation Tagged With: Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

DHS Establishes Information Sharing Capability and Process Required under CISA; Issues Multi-Agency Information Sharing Guidance

February 22, 2016 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

The Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) has posted four documents on the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) website to satisfy several requirements set forth in the  Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (“CISA”).  Details on the four documents are provided below. By way of background, CISA was passed into law on December 18, 2015 […]

Filed Under: Cybersecurity, Digital Crimes, Legislation, National Security Tagged With: Department of Homeland Security (DHS), information sharing

President Obama Announces Cybersecurity National Action Plan

February 11, 2016 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

On February 9, 2016, President Barack Obama unveiled his new Cybersecurity National Action Plan (CNAP), a comprehensive approach to confront cybersecurity challenges. As articulated in the CNAP Fact Sheet released by the White House, CNAP takes “near-term actions and puts in place a long-term strategy to enhance cybersecurity awareness and protections, protect privacy, maintain public […]

Filed Under: Cybersecurity, Digital Crimes, Enforcement, National Security, Privacy, Regulation Tagged With: The White House

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