Alex Trafton

Mar 22, 2024 | mondaq.com | Vincent Mekles |Randall Cook |Alex Trafton

On February 28, 2024, President Biden signed Executive Order 14117 (the EO), on "Preventing Access to Americans' Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern." The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) concurrently published an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the "ANPRM") to commence the process of establishing regulations that will effectuate the EO.

Mar 21, 2024 | mondaq.com | Randall Cook |Vincent Mekles |Alex Trafton

On February 28, 2024, President Biden signed Executive Order 14117 (the "EO"), on "Preventing Access to Americans' Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern." The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) concurrently published an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the "ANPRM") to commence the process of establishing regulations that will effectuate the EO.

Feb 14, 2024 | angle.ankura.com | Randall Cook |Alex Trafton |Morial Shah |Bojan Lazarevski

On January 29, 2024, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) at the U.S. Department of Commerce issued a new proposed regulatory rule (the “Proposed Rule”), which will impose significant diligence, monitoring, and reporting requirements on U.S. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers and foreign resellers of U.S. IaaS products.

Feb 8, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Alex Trafton

On December 21, 2023, the Department of Defense (DoD) issued a memorandum (Memo) providing guidance and clarification on the security and cyber incident management requirements applicable for the use of external Cloud Service Offerings (CSOs) by defense contractors subject to Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) clause 252.204-7012 “Safeguarding Covered Defense Information and Cyber Incident Reporting.” The Memo has significant implications for defense contractors that...

Jan 16, 2024 | mondaq.com | Alex Trafton

On December 21, 2023, the Department of Defense (DoD) issued a memorandum (Memo) providing guidance and clarification on the security and cyber incident management requirements applicable for the use of external Cloud Service Offerings (CSOs) by defense contractors subject to Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) clause 252.204-7012 "Safeguarding Covered Defense Information and Cyber Incident Reporting." The Memo has significant implications for defense contractors that...