Monthly Archives: March 2018

Local Government TREND. How 1 City Arms its Citizens in CyberSecurity.

City: New York City

Cybersecurity protection offered by NYC: A free app called NYC Secure that alerts a person to mailcious attempts to hack their device

5 Components to NYC Secure:

  • Its a free app
  • It will not collect or transmit any personal identifying information
  • It will not collect or transmit private data
  • It works in coordination with increased security rollouts at NYCs public Wi-Fi networks
  • New York’s NYC Cyber Command (NYC3), a city-level cyber defense organization, will oversee…

3 Reasons 30+ State Attorneys General Opposition to Federal Data Breach Preemption.

32 Attorneys General oppose federal preemption of state data security laws because:

  • Reduces state enforcement by allowing entities to decide if a breach needs to be reported
  • Prevents proactive action by consumers in state law, which states currently have
  • Leaves a vacant enforcement loophole for breaches that impact fewer than 5000 

Pocono News | PA attorney general seeks stronger enforcement of data breach notification laws

Bi partisan Attorneys General Letter Opposing Federal Data Security…

CyberSecurity in the Bluebonnet Flower State Budget.

What does the Texas state budget spend on cyber security?

  • $8.0 million for 180 employees whose repsonsibilities include cybersecurity
  • $21.5 million appropriation to DIR for 2018-2019
  • $24.0 million for new cybersecurity projects and initiatives at other agencies
  • Cybersecurity acocunts for 2% of state IT expenses
  • In 2016, DSHS reported security incident costs of $1.9million

LBB | Overview of State Agency Cybersecurity Costs 

Funding Voting Machine Data Security in the orange Blossom State

Florida legislature authorized the spending of  $1.9 million in federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA) money for:

  • Counties to buy devices & pay for a monthly monitoring service that looks for hacker attacks
  • Each sensor costs $8,000
  • Monthly monitoring is $1,300/month
  • Funding will last only for 12 months
  • Funding was not provided to protect the statewide database of voter information
  • Funding doe snot include the Governor’s request for 5 cyber security experts 

Tampa Bay Times | Despite…

Lege Trend. Excluding Cybersecurity Info from Open Records. 4 Key Definitions in the Bill from the Apple Blossom State

Michigan enacted HB 4973 (2018) which will exclude cybersecurity information from open records requests. 

It creates these 4 cybersecurity definitions to protect the state’s cybersecurity:

  • “Cybersecurity vulnerability”
  • “Cybersecurity plan”
  • “Cybersecurity incident”
  • “Cybersecurity assessment”

The Peninsula | New law exempts data linked to cybersecurity from FOIA requests

 

Lege Trend. 1st in nation Criminal Case Database Run by a State + Local Governments Beating this TREND.

State: Florida

The bill: HB 7071 (2018)

What would this database do?

  • store searchable, anonymized data about individual defendants
  • includes ethnicities
  • includes details of plea agreements
  • county-level data about the daily number of people being held in a given jail pre-trial
  • annual misdemeanor caseload at each court

How is this trend progressing?

  • local governments like counties in California have created their own criminal case databases

WIRED | FLORIDA COULD START A CRIMINAL-JUSTICE…

Lege Trend. Gov Signs Post Equifax Bill in the Goldenrod State. 3 Key Elements of the Bill.

State: Nebraska

Nebraska’s 2018 post-Equifax reform bill: Legislative Bill 757 (2018)

What does Nebraska’s LB 757 do?

  • requires reasonable security and disposal procedures and practices for all entities possessing data
  • non-affiliated 3rd parties also have to maintain reasonable security and disposal procedures for data
  • free credit freezes and free credit thaws

3 Points. Final EQUIFAX Response Bills in the American Pasque Flower State. LEGE TREND.

State: South Dakota

The South Dakota post-Equifax data breach bills: House Bill 1078 & House Bill 1127 

What did House Bill 1078  do? Freezes remain in place until the consumer requests otherwise & must be lifted within 3 days of a request

What did House Bill 1127  do? Cost free credit report freezing & un-freezing (thawing)

4 Takeaways of the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act

State: New York

Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act: NY Senate Bill S6933A (2018)

What do I need to know to sound like I know about the SHIELD Act?

  • it covers both disclosure of hacks & securing information
  • for businesses it uses the increasingly common standard of :”“reasonable safe-guards to protect the security, confidentiality and integrity” of private information.”
  • The carrot: no new causes of action are created
  • The stick: violations fall under the Deceptive Trade…