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2 Tenets of Data Security Legislation from Republicans.

Resiliance is the name of the game. R Street is calling for “resiliance” and not “remediation” in legislative solutions to data breaches.

If bills shouldn’t require that  consumers receive free credit report monitoring and cyber security standards and breach notification requirements for entities that maintain consumer data, what should bills do?

  • Require the National Institute of Standards and Technology to maintain a list of brest practices
  • The guidelines would ” empower[s] consumers to…

TX House Interim Charge Request on Data Security for your Toll Tag.

Texas State Representatives Minajarez, Pickett, Dale, Oliverson & Goldman requested the following interim charge:​

  • Study what precautions toll road operators in Texas have in place to prevent cyber security threats, both internal and external.

The Minajarez, Pickett, Dale, Oliverson & Goldman letter to Speaker Straus dated 10.2.2017

Lege Trend: Data Breach Exposes Consumer Information? Pay the Consumer, so Says Republicans.

During the Congressional hearings on the Equifax breach, Republicans bandied about the idea of requiring credit reporting businesses, that have exposed consumer information, to pay affected consumers “a couple thousand bucks each [consumer]”

The rational: An incentive to keep business data security up to snuff

The Republican: Congressman Joe Barton (R-TX), a founder of the bipartisan Congressional Privacy Caucus

The Hill | GOP rep pitches fines for hacked credit-monitoring firms

Small Cities. Data Security Costs. By the Numbers.

  • 40% of local government CIOs report experiencing more attacks during the last 12 months
  • 26% of CIOs reporting an attack, incident or breach attempt occurring hourly
  • 18% report a cyberattempt at least daily
  • 78% of municipalities don’t have an adequate password management policy
  • 97% of the municipalities he surveyed don’t have a well-documented disaster recovery plan
  • 46% store their backup files and records onsite rather than offsite or in the cloud
  • 90% of local governments don’t bother…

Lege Trend. Data Security Legislation for Infrastructure. Read the Bill.

A House Companion to the Senate’s, Securing Energy Infrastructure Act of 2017 by Senator Angus King (I-ME) and Senator James E. Risch (R-ID), has been filed by Congressman C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (MD-02) and Congressman John R. Carter (TX-31). The legislation will:

  • “establishes a two-year pilot program to study covered entities and identify new classes of security vulnerabilities and research and test technology – like analog devices – that could be used to isolate the most critical systems…

State Regulator Subpoenas Company After Data Breach. What your Clients Need to Know.

The State:  New York

The regulator:  New York’s Department of Financial Services

The Subpoena: Seeks more information about Equifax’s data breach, including:

  • details on when Equifax learned of the breach
  • details on what actions Equifax took after the breach was discovered

More regulatory enforcement in the works? Yes, New York also wants to impose the financial data security rules it finalized this year to apply to credit reporting agencies like Equifax.

What does this mean for other…

+1 State Bill. Equifax Reaction from Bluegrass Country. Procurement Opportunities + New Encryption Standards.

Kentucky Attorney General proposes revisions to the state’s data breach notification statute to require:

  • Kentuckians impacted by a data breach would gain access to a free credit freeze
  • Require access to 3 free credit reports each year from each of the major credit reporting agencies
  • Require 5 years of credit monitoring
  • Require all credit reports be encrypted

WCPO | Kentucky’s attorney general proposes new data breach protections after Equifax incident