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 […]
National Security
President Obama Announces Cybersecurity National Action Plan
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 […]