In our latest Distilling Cyber Policy podcast episode, Alex Botting and Jen Ellis from the Center for Cybersecurity Policy & Law are joined by Lee Licata, one of the Deputy Chiefs of the Foreign Investment Review Section in the National Security Division at the Department of Justice (DOJ), and Grant Dasher, the Cybersecurity Division Architecture Branch Chief at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA). The conversation delves into the recently released Executive Order (EO) 14117 on "Preventing Access to Americans' Bulk Sensitive Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern."

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