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5 States leading the way on Data Security Legislation. Medical Data. Retail Data. Data Businesses. All Businesses.

States are enacting more quickly and fully than the federal government on data security regulation. Here’s a look at the 5 states leading the way:

Regulatory TREND. Anatomy of a Secure Election Outreach Plan from the Hoosiers.

Indiana Secretary of State outreach plan touting a secure election contains:

  •  television, radio, and print ads stressing voter registration deadline
  • refers to the IN election system as “he healthiest 200-year-old”
  • touting security measures:
    • stresses none of Indiana’s voting machines are connected to the internet
    • Ball State tests the state’s voting systems

WFYI | Indiana Secretary Of State Seeks To Reassure…

Local TREND. 4 Procurement Opportunities for State Election Security Grants in the Sunshine State

Florida offers local governments election security grants that:

  • Can purchase electronic poll registers to prevent double voting
  • Can purchase and install off-site server
  • Provide for hiring an IT professional to implement the new off-site server
  • Offers local governments an opportunity for backups in place to resume the continuity of operations instantaneously

Suwannee Democrat | Election security grants approved for local counties

Campaign TREND. 2 Election Security Plans.

Campaign: For Massachusetts election official, the Secretary of State

The 2 competing election hacking plans:

  • Plan 1:
    • add 7-10 full-time cybersecurity specialists
    • create the Cybersecurity Operations Center
      •  operate on a 24/7 basis and monitor the office’s voting data
    •  risk-limiting audits to be conducted after all state and federal elections
  • Plan 2 from the 7 term incumbent
    • continue to only use paper ballots
    • store  voters’ personal information off the internet
    • exisiting IT…

Regulatory Trend. Cybersecurity Integration Center Alerts Agencies to Wildfires too. WHERE. WHAT. HOW.

WHERE: California

WHAT: The information sharing at the California Cybersecurity Integration Center alerted agencies along I-5 to a wildfire before the wildfire was phoned in

HOW: the Cybersecurity Inegration Center uses electronic scrapes of twitter, and a tweet started the wildfire information sharing through the agency

Cybersecurity Integration Center was created by Executive Order in 2015. 

Route 50 | How California Is Improving Cyber Threat Information Sharing

Health Care Data TREND. Governors Association Plan. 5 Steps.

  • 8 States collaborating with the Governors Association
    • Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Vermont and Washington
  • Establish best practices for health care data
  • Really long name:  “Harnessing the Power of Data to Achieve State Policy Goals: The Foundation for State Success in Improving Quality and Reducing Costs,”
  • 16 months 
  • Goals:
    • enable a fuller and better use of the countless health-care data streams they collect and maintain
    • legislative fixes
    • regulatory fixes

      • …