Documents released over the past year detailing the National Security Agency’s (“NSA”) telephony metadata collection program and interception of international content under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) implicated U.S. high technology companies in government...

In recent years, several U.S. government agencies have pioneered the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies to improve the efficiency and accuracy of their 'responsibility determinations' (reviews of, among other things, contractor representations and certifications,...

Abstract. The financial services sector provides an interesting case study for the proper relationship between government and the private sector in the area of information security. Financial information is attractive to thieves; the sector is pervasively and pro-actively examined and regulated;...

Economists have dominated U.S. scholarship about the S&L debacle and they have universally viewed the regulatory response as horrific. This paper argues that the conventional economic wisdom is badly flawed. The U.S. regulatory response to the debacle was disastrous – when economists shaped it...

The increased importance of national and IT security for the United States, specifically after the events of September 11, 2001, resulted in the Federal Information of Security Management Act (FISMA, Public Law 107347, Title III) being passed by the Congress in 2002. FISMA requires agency's CIO...