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New York State Assembly is pursuing SB06880 to require a consumer to be notified of a breach within 15 days of discovering the breach.New York SB 06880 (2017)
Supporting changes to New York’s Data Security and Notification Act, the state Attorney General states:
Data Centers are chosing to set up shop in Iowa. Corn fields and data servers go together like Bluebell Ice cream and Texas.
The latest data center by Apple Inc. includes an economic incentive package that includes:
What does the Hawkeye State have to offer?
The State: Virginia
The goal of the public-private partnership: “optimizing opportunities for innovative collaboration and investment in Virginia’s transportation system”
The data shared with the private sector: 22 different data sets, with initial data sets including traffic volumes, speed limits, travel advisories, lane closures, crashes, truck restrictions, traffic sensors, incidents, sign messages and locations, paving schedules, short- and long-term weather events, the Six-Year…
The Federal Trade Commission settled a data privacy investigation by Uber agreeing to 20 years of privacy audits.
The FTC says the company “failed consumers”
CNBC | Uber agrees to 20 years of privacy audits after FTC says it ‘failed consumers’
Companies are finding cybersecuity weaknesses in employees by sending faux phishing emails and seeing which employees bite.
Corporate test data shows cyber literacy training reduces the number of employees who fall for phishing scams.
How many years until there are cyber literacy requirements in public education? in state contracts?
SC Media | Diagnosing employee phishing weaknesses key to improving email security
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:
The 2016-2017 Chair of the National Governor Association, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, explains that cyber security directly impacts these policy areas and businesses:
Lloyds of London estimates a global cyber attack will result in damages similar to hurricane Sandy, or $53 billion in economic losses from a global hacking of cloud services.
How do the $53 Billion oin costs break down?
Average economic losses $4.6 billion to $53 billion
Actual losses could be as high as $121 billion
$45 billion of that sum may not be covered by cyber policies, because
companies are underinsuring
If operating systems are hacked, average losses…
How to pass electric grid cybersecurity standards in 2 steps of legislstive logic:
Natural Gas Intel | Senate Energy Policy Reform Bill Revived, Fast-Tracked
Department of Defense is adding cybersecurity standards to its procurement process.
Requirements in the new contracting rules that take effect this fall are:
FedScoop | Pentagon will soon hold contractors to elevated cyber standards