On June 6, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) on Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity, amending certain prior directives established by the Biden and Obama administrations. Importantly, the administration’s new directive maintains continuity of the cybersecurity goals of prior administrations and demonstrates that cybersecurity remains a bipartisan priority. However, the […]
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Last Minute Biden Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence Executive Orders Survive Initial Trump Revocations
In the final week of the Biden Administration’s term in office, former President Biden issued two high profile executive orders that could have significant ramifications for the cybersecurity and technology industries. The first, issued on January 14, 2025, is an “Executive Order on Advancing United States Leadership in Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure” (the “AI Infrastructure Order”). […]
Article: Executive Order to Limit Sales of Americans’ Sensitive Data to Adversarial Foreign Governments
Peter Swire, Senior Counsel at Alston & Bird, has co-authored a detailed article in Lawfare, “Limiting Data Broker Sales in the Name of U.S. National Security: Questions on Substance and Messaging,” analyzing the Biden Administration’s new Executive Order issued yesterday. Swire’s article summarizes key aspects and impacts of the Executive Order, which is intended to […]
President Biden Issues Executive Order on America’s Supply Chains
On February 24, 2021, President Biden announced a new Executive Order on America’s Supply Chains. The Order provides for two key initiatives, including a 100-day review of the supply chains for certain vital products and a long-term review of supply chains in six different sectors of the U.S. economy, including the information and communications technology […]