The state landscape: Virginia
The cyber security proposals: make it a felony for cyber criminals to use ransomware
The reasons that the change in law may do more harm than good:
- the laws a jumbled with overlapping enforcement of multiple agencies
- the jumbled laws make it overburdensome for businesses to comply
- technology advances more quickly than laws
What do good cyber security laws do?
- They are principle-based
- Specify outcomes
- Do not target specific methods of action
- Respect a business’s right to make informed, risk-based decisions
Virginia Business | Cybersecurity legislation may do more harm than good