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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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  • restores internet protections that federal regulators rescinded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…

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…

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