The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Fri, 22 May 2026 11:32:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png White House Releases NIST Cybersecurity Framework – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 White House Releases NIST Cybersecurity Framework https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2014/02/23/white-house-releases-nist-cybersecurity-framework/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=white-house-releases-nist-cybersecurity-framework https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2014/02/23/white-house-releases-nist-cybersecurity-framework/#comments Sun, 23 Feb 2014 14:00:50 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=59959?d=20141202154431EST Posted by Holly J. Gregory, Sidley Austin LLP, on Sunday, February 23, 2014
Editor's Note:

Holly J. Gregory is a partner and co-global coordinator of the Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation group at Sidley Austin LLP. This post is based on a Sidley update by Alan Raul and Ed McNicholas.

On February 12, the White House released the widely anticipated Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (“the Framework”). Developed pursuant to Executive Order 13636 (issued in February 2013), the Framework strongly encourages companies across the financial, communications, chemical, transportation, healthcare, energy, water, defense, food, agriculture, and other critical infrastructure sectors to implement and comply with its voluntary standards. The provisions set forth in the Framework may establish a new baseline for industry standard practices, and may impact or guide FTC enforcement actions and plaintiff data breach lawsuits.

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