November 2016 – Page 2 – InfoHive

TREND: Incentivize good data security policy.

Federal legislators will be asked to consider incentivizing businesses to build in cyber security into their products.

The EU cyber security laws have experts touting that there will be bigger fines if companies fail to notify customers of data breaches.

Germany has created a mobile Quick Reaction Force to quickly address cyberthreats.

Which cyber threats will the Quick Reaction Force respond to? Cyber attacks on government agencies & critical infrastructure

Will there be cyber threat information sharing between business interests and the state? yes.

Why did they enact this Quick Reaction Force for cybersecurity? To protect Germany’s elections from Russian or Chinese hackers

Analytics firms noted that Trump social media numbers among swing voters increased after the leaked Access Hollywood tape.

Other social media analysts say Trump’s social media sentiments were more positive than Clinton’s.

The flaw in cybersecurity law: Not modernizing the law to address white hat hackers

The goals of the legislative fixes:

legislation more friendly to legitimate research
by improving relationship improves between white-hat hackers & the owners of the products they investigate

The legislative fixes:

The research by white hat hackers has to be for security purposes only.
The exemption covers consumer devices, voting machines, medical devices, but not things like critical…

U.S. military hackers have penetrated Russia’s electricty grid & telecommunications in repsonse to Russian attempts on U.S. infrastructure.

The sex scandal Senator’s home: Nebraska

The new legislative policies for the Nebraska Legislature:

“Prohibits senators and their staff from posting information on personal, campaign and commercial social media websites through the state’s secure network or state equipment.”
Require user passwords
Require user passwords to be updated annually

Background on Nebraska’s IT protocols:

Which two states have national guard cyberteams monitoring the election? Ohio and Maryland

What’s swing state Ohio doing?

conducting penetration testing to see if state systems contain vulnerabilities
monitoring election data systems for irregularities
From Ohio’s Secretary of State: “Cyberwarfare is a new front for the military, for business and now for elections.”

What’s Maryland’s plan?

Maryland was one of the first states to engage their national guard in cyberdefense.

Apple is poised to enter health care in these 7 ways:

clinical trial partnership with Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital
precision medicine initiative with Scripps Translational Science Institute
partnered with IBM, Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic on cognitive computing platform called Watson Health Cloud
- offering tailored data analytics services to clinicians
bought a health care tech firm to advance interoperability by aggregating health data into a single digital patient…

None of the companies will give users proper notice about changes in their terms
All of the wristbands collect more data than what is necessary to provide the service
None of the companies fully explain who they may share user data with
None of the companies state how long they will retain user data