With cybersecurity dominating the headlines, the U.S. government has taken several recent steps to target the national security threat posed by cybercriminals and hackers with new regulations aimed at curbing malicious actors online. With a series of proposed rules and an Executive Order, the U.S. government has begun a concerted effort (i) to rein in malicious cyber actors using export controls and sanctions regulations; and (ii) to better align U.S. export control regulations with the realities of cloud computing and encrypted export-controlled data.
Many of these regulations are proposed rules that have not yet become final, meaning that there is still time for companies potentially impacted by the new rules to submit comments.
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