Category Archives: legislative trend

3 Reasons Government Help Needed to Stop Data Breaches. Businesses Are Victims Too.

 

  • Thinking on these laws is backwards. Laws should switch from punishing coporations to realizing in data breaches, companies are most likely also victims of criminal activity
    • it is not a fair framework to punish companies
    • and it is not effective enforcement
  • Limited cyber experts. It is impossible for “every company in America to have sufficient internal cyber expertise to manage the risk.”
  • The robbery analogy. When a bank is robbed, do we blame the bank? No.

Harvard Business Review…

Should cyber security bills include "fake news"?

Stanford researchers and other professors looking at this federal definition of cybersecurity:

Prevention of damage to, protection of, and restoration of computers, electronic communications systems, electronic communications services, wire communication, and electronic communication, including information contained therein, to ensure its availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and nonrepudiation

think that the definition is outdated and needs to reflect the use of…

Lege TREND. Anatomy of a BlockChain Task Force.

The New Jersey Senate passed a Block Chain Task Force bill S2297 (NJ |2018) that will determine whether:

  • NJ should be using Blockchain technology to modernize government systems
  • it would safeguard personal data is good for NJ
  • if it would help with service delivery
  • whether it would be good for local governments

Touted benefits of blockchain/distributed ledger storage? could also help safeguard government systems from cyber-security attacks

Insider NJ | Kean/Beach Blockchain Task Force…

3 Reasons a State Chamber of Commerce Supported a Data Security Bill

What did the Michigan Chamber of Commerce tout as reasons to support a Data Security bill, HB 6405 (MI | 2018) that required businesses to do certain new tasks concerning data breaches:

  • The Chamber likes a specific time frame to notify affected persons
    • The chamber did not like phrasing, within a reasonable time
  • Is ok with “reasonable mandates” on businesses
  • The Chamber supports “.. a consumers’ right to know that their personal identifying information was compromised”

Michigan Chamber of…

5 Reasons Schools Must Tackle Cyber Security.

  • Libaility for the school, the school distric,t the principal, and the superintendent
  • Legal requirements schools retain records like, HIPPA records, that has certian legal requirements
  • Disruptions to Education When a school is subject to a hack, it can suspend learning
  • Student Records. A cyber event may not only want to steal information, it may want to change information. Integrity of school records is crucial
  • Reputation of the school, its educational system, and its leadership

EdScoop…

4 Reasons State Cybersecurity Laws Beat Federal Cybersecurity Laws.

  • More attention at the state level. States have been targets of hackers and that fuels their regulatory structures
  • Agility. States can respond more quickly legislatively
  • More to Lose. States are closer to local level data breaches and are as impacted by local breaches
  • Business Accountability State resources also support businesses that have been impacted by hackers

 

Baltimore Post Examiner | Why is State Cybersecurity better than Federal Cybersecurity?

Lege TREND. Procurement TREND. Bill requires Government Tech purchases to meet Security Standards

HR7283 (115th Congress) requires devices purchased by the federal government to be:

  • Sets contractor minimum security requirements
  • Agencies will set baseline secueity standards for procurements
  • Standards must be “based on technology-neutral, out- come-based security principles”

Text of HR7283 (115th Congress)

NextGov | Upcoming Bill Would Lock Down Agencies’ Internet-Connected Devices 

Lege TREND. Anatomy of a Public Private Hacking Cooperation Bill.

Is this bipartisan? Yes, Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Maggie Hassan, D-N.H.

What’s the bill called? The Public-Private Cybersecurity Cooperation Act

What would it do?  Creates a vulnerability disclosure program, crafted by the Department of Homeland Securty,  to allow hackers to report problems to the proper authorities without being prosecuted 

S3707 (115th Congress)

NextGov | Senators Introduce Bill to Let Hackers Reports Bugs to DHS

Regulatory TREND. 4 Concerns Over State Accepting Bitcoin Payments.

  • Fees charged by bitcoin processor.  Do the fees exceed fees in other payment options
  • Fraud there is a well known Canadian bitcoin tax scam
  • Unnecessary  who wants bitcoin payment? the information according to the state will not be available until after a few months into the program
  • Safety. Is it safe?

Nextgov | Is this about grabbing some of the sizzle that comes with all things blockchain and crypto