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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  • restores internet protections that federal regulators rescinded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…

4% of State Websites Pass Security Tests. 2 Key Points. New Study.

Authors of Report: Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

The report: Benchmarking State Government Websites

What do I need to know?

  • States can improve their security by having their web servers properly enable HTTPS and DNSSEC
  • State website accessibility is improving with 67% passing mobile friendly standards

Texas came in 41st overall. Virginia #1. 

Governing | Only 4 Percent of State Websites Pass Security Tests 

Lege Trend. Tying Funding to CyberSecurity. 3 Points to Watch Out for in Legislation. Hello 3rd party providers.

The federal govenrment has tied Title IV Funding to data security, here’s the key standards that could be replicated by states:

  • Universities will be required to have “reasonable safeguards” to data breaches
  • Universities will beed an estblished response plan
  • Universities will need to oversee 3rd party service providers

Without these requirements, univeristies lose funding.

Department of Education | Breach Response Check List

EdTech | How to Tighten Higher Education Cybersecurity as…

Local Procurement TREND. Local WiFi Brings Telehealth Opportunity

What steps did Chattanooga TN take to expand health care accessibility?

  • Chattanooga’s utilities provider,invested heavily in fiber-optic network infrastructure, delivering 1-gigabit-per-second connections
  • The city actively explored  delivering telehealth services to residents who subscribe to EPB broadband services
  • Docity, as Hypepotamus reports, is “a HIPAA-compliant telehealth platform that works by partnering with communities and internet service providers to add telehealth access to…

4 Points from Techies About the Texas Voter Record Exposure

  •  a single file containing an estimated 14.8 million records was left unsecured, without a password, online
  • File ownership is not clear but is likely “Data Trust, a Republican-focused data analytics firm created by the GOP”
  • data includes fields that might score an individual’s believed views on immigration, hunting, abortion rights, government spending and views on the Second Amendment
  • data also includes additional personal information, such as a person’s phone numbers and their ethnicity and…

CAMPAIGN TREND. Apple Blossom State. Election Security. 5 Point Plan.

Michigan Secretary of State Democratic candidate is proposing this election security plan:

  •  Post-election audits requirement
  • Standardizing poll worker training
  • Convening a commission of top election security experts to advise Michigan
  • Stronger penalties for tampering with voting machines
  • Switching Michigan to a different system to crosscheck voter files against other states

WKAR | Democratic Secretary Of State Nominee Targets Election Security