{"id":257200,"date":"2026-05-27T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/what-is-a-cybersecurity-legal-practice-2-0\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T16:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T20:55:10","slug":"what-is-a-cybersecurity-legal-practice-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/what-is-a-cybersecurity-legal-practice-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is a Cybersecurity Legal Practice, 2.0?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawfaremedia.org\/article\/what-is-a-cybersecurity-legal-practice--2.0\">What Is a Cybersecurity Legal Practice, 2.0?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawfaremedia.org\/article\/what-is-a-cybersecurity-legal-practice--2.0\">https:\/\/www.lawfaremedia.org\/article\/what-is-a-cybersecurity-legal-practice&#8211;2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-27 16:50:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.lawfaremedia.org\">www.lawfaremedia.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Five years ago, our former colleague Dan Sutherland wrote in Lawfare about the pressing need to develop cybersecurity law practices among corporate lawyers and in-house counsel. Then the chief counsel of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Sutherland wrote that businesses and organizations of every size, shape, and sector needed lawyers who can operate fluently at the intersection of law, technology, and security risk.<\/p>\n<p>Years later, Sutherland\u2019s thesis still holds true, but the landscape has evolved significantly. With ongoing \u201chot\u201d conflicts in Europe and the Middle East, computer network operations targeting economies and infrastructure around the world, and the strategic importance of the private sector to the newly issued U.S. Cyber Strategy, we seek to update Sutherland\u2019s guidance to the cybersecurity bar. We intend this article to provide a road map for corporate general counsels looking to deepen their cybersecurity practice groups, government agencies looking to enhance collaboration across the mission space, and university professors seeking to update their cybersecurity law and policy courses. And if companies, agencies, or universities have not yet addressed cybersecurity law, consider this our urgent plea to do so.<\/p>\n<p>In the world of national security and tech, five years is a long time. In 2021, CISA, where we worked with Sutherland, was still in its infancy. Major legal and policy developments such as the National Institute for Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF), the CIA\u2019s Cybersecurity Performance Goals, the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (CIRCIA), and the finalization of a new UN Cybercrime Treaty had not yet come to pass. Operational threats such as ransomware had not yet materialized in full\u2014Sutherland\u2019s original article does not mention them at all. Even more complex risks, such as software supply chain attacks and cloud&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawfaremedia.org\/article\/what-is-a-cybersecurity-legal-practice--2.0\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Is a Cybersecurity Legal Practice, 2.0? https:\/\/www.lawfaremedia.org\/article\/what-is-a-cybersecurity-legal-practice&#8211;2.0 Publish Date: 2026-05-27 16:50:00 Source Domain: www.lawfaremedia.org&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":257201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/lawfare-assets-new.azureedge.net\/assets\/images\/default-source\/article-images\/cloud-tech-data-storage.jpeg?sfvrsn=4db29cce_5","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-257200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257202,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257200\/revisions\/257202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}