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In the political hot spot that is Denton County, Congressman Burgess noted the importance of bringing all stakeholders together on data security legislation by saying,
“I wanted to take an opportunity to hear from people who are working in the research area and the private sector and pull everyone together in a room for the morning and hear what the state of the industry is, and where they thought we might do things to improve it,” said Burgess, R-Lewisville.
Connecticut’s enacted Senate Bill 949 contains significant data security requirements for entities contracting with state agencies and entities in the health insurance and administration business.
Contracting entities must provide:
The emergency contract for $20M was the tip of the ice berg. By August 14th. the federal government will award a 5 year contract for data security protection for the 21.5M federal employees whose data was hacked. Washington Post
Oh, and that pesky, initial contract of $20M isn’t going so well. The Austin, TX based vendor cannot keep up with demand. Washington Post
This week, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) introduced the “Protect US Act,” which would:
China/Chinese hackers were allegedly behind the massive federal government data breach.
NAPA has new data breach compliance and certification. Data breaches are big business, people.
Data breaches and protecting against data breaches generate:
Data breaches impact:
Federal employees this week filed suit over the June 4th federal data breach. The breach is said to the largest in government history, and allegedly the result of Chinese hackers seeking super secret spy information.
The crux of the lawsuit is something all corporations should pay heed to as its the same argument made by plaintiffs in Target and HomeDepot breaches too- how much knowledge did the government have about potential breaches and did the government fail to act? As for the feds,…
An immentn departure by the director of the Office of Personnel Management, Katherine Archuleta, appears likely.
She leads the federal agency at the center of the largest government data breach-ever.
What we know: Alleged Chinese hackers. Forthcoming federal agency resignations.
Will Congress pass a national data security bill after the massive federal employee data breach. Odds are not high. There is a higher liklihood that next week there will be a new food trailer opening in Austin.
What does this mean? States will pass stronger data security bills from everything from retailers to public education contractors to health care data.
The federal employee data breach this week, triggered an emergency contract of $20+million to provide credit monitoring services.
It’s a common response to offer these services. The Texas Comptroller did the same a few years ago when state employee records were breached/exposed.
The techies say credit monitoring is only part of the solution when a person’s data is breached. Other parts to the solution are: