ARTICLE · 09 OCTOBER 2013

Business News Digest - October 2013

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Venable attorneys produce periodic alerts and newsletters covering a variety of topics and practice areas. For your convenience, we have assembled below a collection of the latest alerts and newsletters from September 2013. To view the full text of an article, please click on the title of the piece.

NIST Holds Fourth Workshop on Cybersecurity Framework

On September 11-13, 2013, the National Institute of Standards and Technology held its fourth and – for now – final workshop on the preliminary Cybersecurity Framework. Discussion largely focused on how to promote executive engagement on issues relating to cybersecurity, implementation of the Framework, and what participation in the Department of Homeland Security voluntary program would look like.

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