Monthly Archives: September 2018

Local RFP TREND. Digital Tourism. WHAT. WHERE. HOW.

WHAT: touchscreen kiosks to direct residents & tourists to:

  • points of interest
  • offer directions
  • offer WIFI
  • public transit maps
  • emergency alert functions.

WHERE St Louis MO via  St. Louis Development Corp., the city’s economic development arm

HOW: Issued a request for proposals that requires:

  • kiosks not be considered a commercial venture
  • kiosks are not a type of electronic billboard
  • capable of capturing video surveillance footage at 1080p resolution
  • 4G or 5G

State Tech | St. Louis Aims…

Lege TREND. Scale Back Data Breach Notification Bills. Only Focus on Financial Sector. What you need to know.

Which groups don’t like the focus on the financial sector? Retailers, because it slows passage of across the board data breach notification statutes

What’s the purpsoe of focusing on the financial sector?

  • Find a solution for the Equifax breach

What are state officials saying? “He has consistently opposed federal legislation that would pre-empt state attorneys general, as this proposal appears to do.” — CT Attorney General

Inside Cybersecurity | A debate unfolds over narrow breach-notice…

3 Reasons US Chamber Opposes State Data Privacy law. WHAT? WHY?

WHAT: The US Chamber of Commerce opposes California’s Consumer Privacy Act and wants the federal government to preempt state law

WHAT legislative specifics do they want?

  • Preemption of state data protection laws
  • Require concrete harm before a lawsuit
  • Preclude all class action lawsuits
  •  

WHY? 

  • avoid a disparate patchwork of data privacy rules
  • without preemption, companies have to choose the strictist law to comply with and that is California’s consumer privacy act

MARTECH | US Chamber of…

Business TREND. Cyber Insurance Growth Estimates.

​German reinsurance giant Munich Re estiamtes cybcer insurance market will:

  • double by 2020 to over 8 billion dollars
  • corporate spending will be $3.4-$4 billion (3-3.4 billion euros) in 2017
  • corporate spending will be up to $8-$9 billion by 2020
  •  economic costs of large-scale cyber attacks already exceeds losses caused by natural disasters

PHYS.ORG | Cyber insurance market to double by 2020, says Munich Re

Fresh Regulatory & Legislative Issue: Cybersecurity & Aerospace

Congress, and thus soon the states, will openly consider regulatory and legislative measures for cybersecurity in aerospace including:

  • aerospace equipment
  • airport cybersecurity
  • connected devices

Why should I care about this for my clients?  Atlanta’s airport 2017 ransomware attack costs  may be upward of $40 million in direct costs and loss of productivity

House Committee on Homeland Security | UNDERSTANDING CYBERSECURITY THREATS TO AMERICA’S AVIATION SECTOR

Local TREND, Cities & Cybersecurity Insurance

Cities with mentioned cybersecurity insurance coverage:

  • Houston, 3  policies covering $10 Million with a $471,400 premium
  • Dallas
  • San Antonio via existing property policy
  • Ft. Worth,  $5 million cyberpolicy with a $99,570 premium
  • Atlanta 
  • Charlotte, N.C
  •  San Francisco has $50 million cyberpolicy for its public-health department

Cities actively looking at acquiring policies:

  • Boston
  • Nashville
  • Washington, D.C.
  • San Jose, CA

Self insured cities:

  • Seattle 

Wall Street Journal | More U.S.…

Lege TREND. Creating an Office of Elections Security. 9 Policy Goals for Secure Elections.

California’s AB 3075 (2018 | CA) which will require the Office of Elections Cybersecurity within the California Secretary of State’s office to:

(1) Coordinate efforts between the Secretary of State and local elections officials 
(2) Monitor and counteract false or misleading information regarding the electoral process that is published online or on other platforms and that may suppress voter participation or cause confusion and disruption of the orderly and secure administration of elections.

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3 Ways State Attorneys General Control Data Security Policy

  • Create policy by litigating
    • ex: suits to support online privacy could be the new tobacco lawsuit
  • Blocking Federal Policies
    • Repulican Attorneys General sued Obama Administration 46 times in 8 years
    • Democratic Attornesy General have sued the Trump Administration 35 times in year 1
  • Crafting policy by managing State-level settlements delivering big headlines and fast payouts
    • ex: Equifax settlements

Forbes | How state attorneys general are driving tech policy

Lege Trend. Bill Protects Internet Speed. What you need to know. How it Impacts Providers.

California Legislature overhwelmingly passed SB 822 (2018 |CA) that will:

  • bans internet service providers from blocking access to legal online content
  • bans internet service providers from forcing websites to pay more money for faster speeds
  • restores internet protections that federal regulators rescinded

Why did the Legislature enact this bill?

California elected officials passed the bill because the California fire agency complained that Verizon restricted its internet access during an…