Monthly Archives: April 2019

Local TREND. Addressing Crypto Currency with Local Ordinances

Where: Missoula County, Montana

The County adopted rules for crypto miners that:

  • health & safety. County is “protecting the health, safety, morality and general welfare of the people in the district” by ensuring electricity for local residents
  • use limitation. crypto mining activities only in areas of light and heavy industry
  • waste limitations. provide evidence that all e-waste generated will be processed by a licensed waste management company

The Cryptoo Currency Post | Montana County…

Lege TREND. Blockchain and Bitcoin Bills.

Michigans HB 4103 (2019 | MI) would:

  • add bitcoina nd blockchain into existing legal & financial statutes
  • prohibit rackteering related to blockchain and bitcoin
  • apply existing financial crimes to crimes utilizing blockchain, distributed ledger techniology and bitcoin

The definition of cryptocurrency used in Michigan: “digital currency in which encryption techniques are used to regulate the generation of units of currency and verify the transfer of funds, and that operates independently of a…

Regulatory TREND.Biometric Security Oversight Commissions. Forward Thinking Procurement Opportunities.

Where: Australia

What group is recommending a Biometric Security Oversight Commission? The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement

In its report  the joint committee found that:

  • need to protect biometric data collected and shared among law enforcement agencies
  • increase IoT security awareness
  • review of biometric and persoinal information security legislation to keep it up to date,
  • consider hybrid storage facilities
  • consider advanced techniques like  artificial intelligence for…

Business TREND. Industry Calls for First Amendment Rules with Data Privacy Rules.

Who: Facebook

What does Facebook want? It wants to know the rules of the game for political speech and the Constitution

Why? The government rather than a private comapny, like facebook shuld detemrine constitutional limitations

Variety | Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Says ‘We Need New Rules’ Regulating Political Speech

Regulatory TREND. Anatomy of a State Cyber Office. How to hold agencies accountable to the Executive Branch?

West Virigina HB 2452 (2019 |WV)  created the a new Cybersecurity Office within the Office of Technology.

Goals of the a new Cybersecurity Office:

  • risk assessment across state agencies
  • establish unifying security standards among state agencies
  • will leverage a risk management approach
  • provide for “apples-to-apples comparison of cyber-risk assessments across all agencies within the Executive Branch.”  

Stems from WV’s 2018 particiaption in the National Governors Association (NGA)…

Data Security new Threats to Water and Wastewater. Regulatory & Legislative Fixes on the Horizon.

IN March 2019 hackers got into a small Colorado water utility.

Are there regualtory parallels that can be made to secure the water and waste water systems? Yes, Water utilities & power distributors share similar industrial control systems

Which states have taken water security measures forward? NJ, NY 

E& E News | Hackers force water utilities to sink or swim

Lege TREND. Cybersecurity legislation for state 911 systems.

Maryland HB 397 (2019 | MD) would increase telecom fees to harden the state 911 system.

Why the legislation? the Maryland 911 system has overloaded and resulted in death of injured residents

Why is data security an issue with 911?

  • to conenct to cell phones and via text message, it exposes 911 systems to the internet
  • 337 successful attacks (on public safety networks) across 49 states and DC in the past 24 months
    • 186 %increase over the previous 24 months

Baltimore Sun | Modern 9-1-1 system…