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New Executive Order Prioritizing Cybersecurity: Key Directives, Implications, Compliance, Risk Management

A live 90-minute CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A

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Wednesday, August 27, 2025 (in 11 days)

1:00pm-2:30pm EDT, 10:00am-11:30am PDT

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This CLE webinar will discuss President Trump's new Executive Order (EO) aimed at strengthening the cybersecurity of federal networks and critical infrastructure. The panel will review the key directives of the new EO and their implications and provide guidance for counsel advising clients on cybersecurity risk management.

Description

On June 6, 2025, President Trump issued a cybersecurity EO titled "Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation's Cybersecurity," along with a corresponding fact sheet. The new EO defines the Trump administration's cyber initiatives and rescinds or modifies portions of previous administrations' EOs while leaving their overall frameworks mostly intact.

Some of the EO's key initiatives include: rolling back security requirements for federal software providers; advancing secure software development by establishing new transparency and security in third-party supply chains; emphasizing that China is the biggest threat to U.S. cybersecurity and outlining measures where the government will enhance secure technology practices; requiring federal agencies to continue to improve network visibility and strengthen cloud configurations; eliminating digital identity directives; increasing the scale of AI threat detection techniques and automating a cyber defense; and implementing sanctions to combat significant malicious cyber-enabled activities.

Listen as our authoritative panel discusses the new cybersecurity EO and provides insights on what these mandates mean for clients engaging with the federal government and maintaining cybersecurity protocols.

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Outline

  1. Overview: takeaways from the Trump cybersecurity EO
  2. Key sections of the EO
  3. How the Trump EO differs from prior administrations' cybersecurity strategies
  4. Overlap in cybersecurity priorities between the Trump and Biden administrations
  5. Impact of the EO for companies providing digital products and services to the federal government
  6. Steps companies should take to ensure compliance with the EO's directives
  7. Practitioner pointers

Benefits

The panel will discuss these and other key considerations:

  • What are the key takeaways regarding the Trump administration's cybersecurity priorities?
  • How does the Trump EO modify or rescind previous administrations' EOs?
  • How does the Trump EO alter the federal government's approach to cybersecurity?
  • What steps should companies take regarding their cybersecurity risk management programs to ensure compliance with the new EO?

Faculty

Austin, Patrick
Patrick J. Austin

Of Counsel
Woods Rogers

Mr. Austin advises clients on breach response, data privacy, information security, and regulatory compliance related to...  |  Read More

Betancourt, Kaitlin
Kaitlin Betancourt

Partner
Goodwin Procter

Ms. Betancourt is a partner in Goodwin’s Data, Privacy & Cybersecurity practice and a member...  |  Read More

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