The National Security & Investment Act (NSI Act) came into force on 4 January 2022 and introduced a standalone national security investment regime in the UK for the first time. It replaced the Secretary of State’s (SoS) previous powers to scrutinise mergers which give rise to national securi...
Finally, the National Defense Authorization Act for FY21 creates a National Cybersecurity Director in the White House. The role of the Director is to serve as a principal advisor to the President on cybersecurity policy and strategy, as well as to engage with indus...
The “FedRAMP Authorization Act,” at Section 5921 of the FY 2023 NDAA, codifies into law the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) cloud-service provider security assessment and authorization program within the General Services Administration (GSA)....
I. Description of the Act The United Kingdom introduced a new regime, from 4 January 2022, that gives the UK government the ability to "call in" for review on national security grounds transactions in any sector of the economy. Keywords: UK; National Security and I...
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national security. The new regime will, once in force, replace the national security aspects of the government’s current powers of intervention under the Enterprise Act 2002 (EA) which are not as extensive in their scope. But the NSI Act will not halt a merger assessment by the UK ...
National security laws and regulations refer to the measures a state takes to protect its citizens, institutions and economy from threats, both domestically and globally. Guarding against these threats—which can be external or internal—requires vigilance across a range of areas, from economic and ...
The UK National Security and Investment Act 2021 (NSIA) entered into force and became operational on 4 January 2022. As mentioned previously, the NSIA represents a radical overhaul to the foreign investment screening in the UK: not only does it introduce for the first time a requirement...
In this month’s edition of REF News and Views we are going to continue our series on the National Security and Investment Act 2021 (the “NSI Act”) and discuss its notification and intervention provisions. To recap, in last month’s edition of REF News and Views we provided some back...
When data security = national security One of theoptionsopen to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), when considering whether to take enforcement action under the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) is – as an alternative to such action – to invite an offending data controller to sign an...