Monthly Archives: October 2017

4 States. 4 Election Data Security Measures. + procurement Changes

  • West Virginia’s elections team added a cybersecurity expert from the state National Guard with a top-secret federal security clearance
  • Colorado “will now verify election results via an advanced statistical procedure called a risk-limiting audit.”
  • Rhode Island “will now verify election results via an advanced statistical procedure called a risk-limiting audit.”
  • Delaware is moving its voter-registration list off the state’s aging mainframe computer

There are also new federal guidelines for…

+1 State Lege. Equifax State Legislative Fix. 4 Key Points + Bill Roll Out Info

The State: Kentucky

The proposed legislation would require companies responsible for a data breach to provide impacted Kentuckians:

  • access to a free credit freeze
  • 3 free credit reports each year from each of the major credit reporting agencies
  • 5 years of credit monitoring
  • Require all credit reports be encrypted.

How was the bill proposal announced? The State Attorney General Andy Beshear and the bill’s author, State Senator McGarvey, at AARP Kentucky’s Louisville headquarters

Insider…

Trending Ride Share Issue in the West. Data. Data. Data. Cities v. States v. TNCs v. Riders.

California regulations on ride share require annual data reports. The data required to be sent to the state includes:

  • types of service they provide
  • what neighborhoods they serve
  • how many miles their drivers log

What data do the cities want? 

  • Data to help solve local transporation issues
  • Ride Share’s affect on roads
  • Ride Share’s affect on the environment

The data’s big bad issue: Privacy concerns about rider personal information

The Recorder | Uber and Lyft Resist Regulators’…

October is Cyber Security Awareness Month. 3 Ways Business & Government Are Jumping on the Bandwagon.

October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Here’s exampkes of what governments and businesses have done to engage:

  • D.C. has a Cyberscoop’s  DC CyberWeek  that brings together experts, executives, innovators, influencers and decision makers from government and business sectors to learn, network, hack and improve cybersecurity outcomes.
  • ESETand Wrapify are sending a squad of #CyberAware vehicles on San Diego roads offering cyber security trivia and prizes
  • Secure San Diego is a day…

By the Numbers. Education Data Breaches.

Thus far in 2017, the number of education data breaches:

  • doubled over 2016
  • the first half of 2017 saw an increase of 103%
  • North American bears the brunt of educaiton hacks, with 88% occuring here
  • 74% were caused by malicious outsiders
  • 13% were caused by stolen, lost or otherwise compromised records

Campus Technology | Education Data Breaches Double in First Half of 2017

2 Tenets of Data Security Legislation from Republicans.

Resiliance is the name of the game. R Street is calling for “resiliance” and not “remediation” in legislative solutions to data breaches.

If bills shouldn’t require that  consumers receive free credit report monitoring and cyber security standards and breach notification requirements for entities that maintain consumer data, what should bills do?

  • Require the National Institute of Standards and Technology to maintain a list of brest practices
  • The guidelines would ” empower[s] consumers to…

TX House Interim Charge Request on Data Security for your Toll Tag.

Texas State Representatives Minajarez, Pickett, Dale, Oliverson & Goldman requested the following interim charge:​

  • Study what precautions toll road operators in Texas have in place to prevent cyber security threats, both internal and external.

The Minajarez, Pickett, Dale, Oliverson & Goldman letter to Speaker Straus dated 10.2.2017

Lege Trend: Data Breach Exposes Consumer Information? Pay the Consumer, so Says Republicans.

During the Congressional hearings on the Equifax breach, Republicans bandied about the idea of requiring credit reporting businesses, that have exposed consumer information, to pay affected consumers “a couple thousand bucks each [consumer]”

The rational: An incentive to keep business data security up to snuff

The Republican: Congressman Joe Barton (R-TX), a founder of the bipartisan Congressional Privacy Caucus

The Hill | GOP rep pitches fines for hacked credit-monitoring firms