This is part of an ongoing series of Covington blogs on the AI policies, executive orders, and other actions of the Trump Administration. The first blog summarized key actions taken in the first weeks of the Trump Administration, including the revocation of President Biden’s 2023 Executive Order 14110 on the “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of AI” and the release of President Trump’s Executive Order 14179 on “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence” (“AI EO”). This blog describes actions on AI taken by the Trump Administration in February 2025.Continue Reading February 2025 AI Developments Under the Trump Administration
NIST
November 2024 Developments Under President Biden’s Cybersecurity Executive Order and National Cybersecurity Strategy
This is part of a series of Covington blogs on the implementation of Executive Order 14028, “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” issued by President Biden on May 12, 2021 (the “Cyber EO”). The first blog summarized the Cyber EO’s key provisions and timelines, and the subsequent blogs described the actions taken…
Continue Reading November 2024 Developments Under President Biden’s Cybersecurity Executive Order and National Cybersecurity StrategyNew Guides Released Relating to Secure Software Development Requirements
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (“CISA”) released a new guide on August 2, 2024 titled, “Software Acquisition Guide for Government Enterprise Consumers: Software Assurance in the Cyber-Supply Chain Risk Management (C-SCRM) Lifecycle” (the “Software Acquisition Guide”). This guide addresses the cybersecurity risks associated with the acquisition and use of third-party developed software and certain related physical products in an agency enterprise environment, and provides recommendations to agency personnel for understanding, addressing, and mitigating those risks. This guide was followed on August 6, 2024, by a separate guide issued jointly by CISA and the FBI titled, “Secure By Demand Guide: How Software Customers Can Drive a Secure Technology Ecosystem” (the “Secure By Demand Guide”). Together, these two guides provide agency and industry personnel a series of questions that can be used to obtain information from suppliers, set technical requirements, and develop contract terms for the acquisition of secure software as contemplated by the Biden Administration’s May 2021 Cybersecurity Executive Order (“EO”) and the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) memoranda implementing that Order.
The specific impact that the guides will have on federal procurements and software developers in the federal supply chain is not yet clear. With this said, all software producers in the federal supply chain are currently required to fully comply with new secure software development minimum requirements promulgated by the Office of Management and Budget by September 8 of this year, as detailed in our prior post here. The Software Acquisition Guide in particular builds on those requirements and thus could be adopted by agencies that opt to impose additional obligations on contractors beyond those minimum requirements.Continue Reading New Guides Released Relating to Secure Software Development Requirements
June 2023 Developments Under President Biden’s Cybersecurity Executive Order and National Cybersecurity Strategy
This is the twenty-sixth in a series of Covington blogs on implementation of Executive Order 14028, “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” issued by President Biden on May 12, 2021 (the “Cyber EO”). The first blog summarized the Cyber EO’s key provisions and timelines, and the subsequent blogs described the actions taken…
Continue Reading June 2023 Developments Under President Biden’s Cybersecurity Executive Order and National Cybersecurity StrategyNIST Requests Comments on Potential Significant Updates to the Cybersecurity Framework
On January 19, 2023, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) published a Concept Paper setting out “Potential Significant Updates to the Cybersecurity Framework” and requesting public feedback and comments on the proposed revisions by March 3, 2023. Originally released in 2014 and previously updated in 2018, the…
Continue Reading NIST Requests Comments on Potential Significant Updates to the Cybersecurity FrameworkNovember 2022 Developments Under President Biden’s Cybersecurity Executive Order
This is the nineteenth in a series of Covington blogs on implementation of Executive Order 14028, “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” issued by President Biden on May 12, 2021 (the “Cyber EO”). The first blog summarized the Cyber EO’s key provisions and timelines, and the subsequent blogs described the actions taken…
Continue Reading November 2022 Developments Under President Biden’s Cybersecurity Executive OrderAugust 2022 Developments Under President Biden’s Cybersecurity Executive Order
This is the sixteenth in a series of Covington blogs on implementation of Executive Order 14028, “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” issued by President Biden on May 12, 2021 (the “Cyber EO”). The first blog summarized the Cyber EO’s key provisions and timelines, and the subsequent blogs described the actions taken by various Government agencies to implement the cyber EO from June 2021 through July 2022. This blog describes key actions taken to implement the Cyber EO during August 2022.Continue Reading August 2022 Developments Under President Biden’s Cybersecurity Executive Order
July 2022 Developments under President Biden’s Cybersecurity Executive Order
This is the fifteenth in a series of Covington blogs on implementation of Executive Order 14028, “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” issued by President Biden on May 12, 2021 (the “Cyber EO”). The first blog summarized the Cyber EO’s key provisions and timelines, and the subsequent blogs described the actions taken by various Government agencies to implement the Cyber EO from June 2021 through June 2022. This blog describes key actions taken to implement the Cyber EO during July 2022.Continue Reading July 2022 Developments under President Biden’s Cybersecurity Executive Order
April 2022 Developments Under President Biden’s Cybersecurity Executive Order
This is the twelfth in a series of Covington blogs on implementation of Executive Order 14028, “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” issued by President Biden on May 12, 2021 (the “Cyber EO”). The first blog summarized the Cyber EO’s key provisions and timelines, and the second through eleventh blogs describe the actions taken by various Government agencies to implement the Cyber EO from June 2021 through March 2022, respectively. This blog summarizes key actions taken to implement the Cyber EO during April 2022. As with the steps taken during prior months, the actions described below reflect the implementation of the EO within the Government. However, these activities portend further actions, potentially in or before June 2022, that are likely to impact government contractors, particularly those who provide software products or services to the Government.
Continue Reading April 2022 Developments Under President Biden’s Cybersecurity Executive Order
March 2022 Developments Under President Biden’s Cybersecurity Executive Order
This is the eleventh in a series of Covington blogs on implementation of Executive Order 14028, “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” issued by President Biden on May 12, 2021 (the “Cyber EO”). The first blog summarized the Cyber EO’s key provisions and timelines, and the second through tenth blogs described the actions taken by various Government agencies to implement the EO from June 2021 through February 2022, respectively. This blog summarizes key actions taken to implement the Cyber EO during March 2022. As with steps taken during prior months, the actions described below reflect the implementation of the EO within the Government. However, these activities portend further actions, potentially in or before June 2022, that are likely to impact government contractors, particularly those who provide software products or services to the Government.
Continue Reading March 2022 Developments Under President Biden’s Cybersecurity Executive Order