Category Archives: 2019 legislative issue

+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

TREND. The Next Technology for Government & Local Government Data. All Data. All places. 3 Bits informed:intel

  • The new hot commodity in data security: blockchain
  • How does it work? Llike a spy network where no one entity or server has all the information.
  • How quickly can information and payments move? Instaneously with no holding fees.

How does the spy network analogy play out for data?

Say your a city controller making payments to a contractor. The payment can be processed instaneously without being hacked because the information is broken down into packets, encrypted and each packet is sent a…

Business Trend by the Numbers. Information Security Procurement.

Gartner Inc. estimates that cybersecurity spending will increase in 2017:

  • By 7%
  • Accounting for a world-wide spending of $86.4 billion in 2017 and $90 Billion in 2018

Spending will be focused on:

  • cyber security services
  • IT outsourcing
  • consulting
  • implementation services

By 2020, bundled cybersecurity contracts will account for 40% of all managed security service contracts and will include:

  • cybersecurity
  • IT deisgn build outsourcing

Politico | Morning Cyber Security | Still a Growing Boy

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Election Vendors. Cybersecurity. Anatomy of a Hack and 3 Contracting Takeaways.

North Carolina’s electronic voting system in 2016 was hacked. The way hackers got in was through the company that provided the poll book- the electronic data that allows voting personnel to verify voters.

What changes we will we see to election procurement:

  • contracts will contain and require higher data security standards
  • vendors may be audited for data security purposes
  • election workers will be equiped to switch to paper ballots, if during voting, it is discovered that election data is…

Business Trend. Healthcare and CyberSecurity Spending. By the Numbers.

71 % of health care organizations budget for cyber security

The majority say cybersecurity is more than 3% of their budget

A majority have hired a chief information security officer or other executive level cybersecurity position

75% do regular cybersecurity testing

80% of US healthcare orgnaizations will increase cybersecurity spending in 2017

Healthcare Dive | HIMSS survey: Hospitals ramping up cybersecurity efforts

Consumer Tech Assoc. Recommends Consistent Education Policy for Student Data Security. Bonjour Education Contractors

The Consumer Tech Association filing with the Commerce Department recommends government action on cybersecurity/datasecurity policies for education because there are so many differnt players in education.

The recommendations that we may soon see in Education Procurement Contracts:

  • market driven solutions e.g. contractors should step up and talk about their student data security protocols
  • instead of government checklists, we need nimble polcies that can adapt as tech changes
  • public-private…

Cybersecurity Policy Not only an IT Issue. Impacts 6 HUGE Policy & Business Issues:

The 2016-2017 Chair of the National Governor Association, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, explains that cyber security directly impacts these policy areas and businesses:

  • technology
  • health care
  • education
  • public safety issue
  • business and economics, including insurance
  • democracy (elections)

State Scoop | 38 governors sign cybersecurity compact

38 Governors Sign CyberSecurity Compact. 3 Reasons Why & 4 Key Policy Issues.

National Governors Association is pushing for state reform of cyber security laws because:

  • The federal government is too slow & too inactive
  • Cyber security is not just an IT issue.
  • Cyber Security is a  technology issue, a health issue, an education issue, a public safety issue, an economic issue and a democracy issue

The National Governor’s Association initiative, Meet the Threat, calls for:

  • instituting cybersecurity governing bodies
  • organizing computer crime units for law enforcement…

How to Move Grid Cybersecurity requirements by linking it to 2 other energy bills.

How to pass electric grid cybersecurity standards in 2 steps of legislstive logic:

  • Tie expedited permitting of pipelines to electric grid modernization
  • Tie electric grid modernization to grid cybersecurity

Natural Gas Intel | Senate Energy Policy Reform Bill Revived, Fast-Tracked