On December 11, 2025, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (“CISA”) released its Cybersecurity Performance Goals 2.0 (“CPG 2.0”), an update to its core set of recommended cybersecurity practices for critical infrastructure owners and operators, which we previously wrote about here.  Established by the 2021 National Security Memorandum on Improving Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems, the CPGs provide a list of essential, outcome-driven cybersecurity “goals” to establish “a common understanding of the baseline security practices” for critical infrastructure owners and operators, including government contractors and defense contractors.  The CPGs, which are voluntary, apply to both information technology (“IT”) and operational technology (“OT”) environments and are designed to reduce risk related to known, high-impact cyber threats and adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures (“TTPs”).

The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (“CISA 2015”), which provided protections for sharing cybersecurity threat information with the federal government and others, officially sunset on September 30, 2025 pursuant to the law’s original sunset date after efforts to re-authorize it did not succeed.  The law created a cybersecurity information…

Oklahoma recently enacted Senate Bill 626, which substantially amends the state’s data breach notification law to broaden the scope of notification obligations and add a new regulator notification requirement along with a new “safe harbor”-style provision that provides liability protections if certain security measures are implemented.  The changes to Oklahoma’s law follow changes to other state data breach notification laws within the past year, including New York’s addition of a 30-day deadline for notice to individuals (added in early 2025) and Pennsylvania’s addition of a regulator notification requirement and obligations to provide free credit monitoring (added in mid-2024).  Key updates from Oklahoma’s bill, which will go into effect on January 1, 2026, are discussed in further detail below.

This is the fifth blog in a series of Covington blogs on cybersecurity policies, executive orders (“EOs”), and other actions of the Trump Administration.  The fourth blog is available here and our initial blog is available here.  This blog describes key cybersecurity developments that took place in June 2025. 

White House Issues New Cybersecurity Executive Order

On June 6, President Trump issued an Executive Order (“Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity and Amending Executive Order 13694 and Executive Order 14144”) (the Order) that modifies certain initiatives in prior Executive Orders issued by Presidents Obama and Biden and highlights key cybersecurity priorities for the current Administration.  We wrote about the Order in additional detail here.

At a high level, the Order: (i) directs that existing federal government regulations and policy be revised to focus on securing third-party software supply chains, quantum cryptography, artificial intelligence, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices; and (ii) more expressly focuses cybersecurity-related sanctions authorities on “foreign” persons.  Although the Order makes certain changes to prior cybersecurity related Executive Orders issued under previous administrations, it generally leaves the framework of those Executive Orders in place.  For example, the Order removes certain requirements relating to the form of attestations (i.e., removing the requirement for machine readable format), as well as the directive for centralized validation of software attestations by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA).  Likewise, the associated directive to the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation to incorporate those requirements has also been eliminated.  However, the Order appears to leave the core program in place.  Further, it does not appear to modify other cybersecurity Executive Orders beyond those specified.  To that end, although the Order highlights some areas where the Trump administration has taken a different approach than prior administrations, it also signals a more general alignment between administrations on core cybersecurity principles.