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Grace Howard

Grace Howard is an associate in the firm’s Washington, DC office. She represents and advises clients on a range of cybersecurity, data privacy, and government contracts issues including cyber and data security incident response and preparedness, regulatory compliance, and internal investigations including matters involving allegations of noncompliance with U.S. government cybersecurity regulations and fraud under the False Claims Act.

Prior to joining the firm, Grace served in the United States Navy as a Surface Warfare Officer and currently serves in the U.S. Navy Reserve.

This is the seventh blog in a series of Covington blogs on cybersecurity policies, executive orders (“EOs”), and other actions of the Trump Administration.  The sixth blog is available here and our initial blog is available here.  This blog describes key cybersecurity developments that took place in August, September

Continue Reading August, September, and October 2025 Cybersecurity Developments Under the Trump Administration

This is the sixth blog in a series of Covington blogs on cybersecurity policies, executive orders (“EOs”), and other actions of the Trump Administration.  The fifth blog is available here and our initial blog is available here.  This blog describes key cybersecurity developments that took place in July 2025. 

Continue Reading July 2025 Cybersecurity Developments Under the Trump Administration

This is the fifth blog in a series of Covington blogs on cybersecurity policies, executive orders (“EOs”), and other actions of the Trump Administration.  The fourth blog is available here and our initial blog is available here.  This blog describes key cybersecurity developments that took place in June 2025. 

Continue Reading June 2025 Cybersecurity Developments Under the Trump Administration

This is the fourth blog in a series of Covington blogs on cybersecurity policies, executive orders (“EOs”), and other actions of the new Trump Administration.  This blog describes key cybersecurity developments that took place in May 2025. 

CISA Releases AI Data Security Guidance

On May 22, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure

Continue Reading May 2025 Cybersecurity Developments Under the Trump Administration

On May 22, 2025, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (“CISA”), which sits within the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) released guidance for AI system operators regarding managing data security risks.  The associated press release explains that the guidance provides “best practices for system operators to mitigate cyber risks through

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This is the third blog in a series of Covington blogs on cybersecurity policies, executive orders (“EOs”), and other actions of the new Trump Administration.  This blog describes key cybersecurity developments that took place in April 2025. 

NIST Publishes Initial Draft of Guidance for High Performance Computing Systems

U.S. National

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