Emerging technologies hold enormous potential – from enhancing our personal lives to increasing national security and economic prosperity – but private sector industries that seek to advance these technologies face a regulatory environment that can inhibit innovation. In this first installment of a two-part guest article series, Wilkinson Barker Knauer partner Gregory R. Gonzalez discusses these challenges, the need for more information sharing and government support, incident reporting obstacles, the implications of the Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act of 2022, and how the private sector is investing in cybersecurity. Part two will cover government initiatives and what companies seeking to innovate can be doing now, including adapting the organization’s cyber culture to today’s risks. See “The Intelligent Workplace in the Age of a Pandemic: Balancing Innovation and Risk” (Oct. 28, 2020).