Category Archives: regulatory trend

By the Numbers Tech Spending in Lobbying, Legislative & Regulatory Affairs.

2017 Congressional spending by tech companies:

  • Google spent $18 million (up from $15.4 million)
  • Facebook spent $11.6 million (up from $8.7 million)
  • Twitter  spent $561,000  (down from $680,000) 
  • Amazon spent $12.8 million  ( up from  $11 million)
  • Apple spent $7.1 million (up from $4.6 million)
  •  Netflix spent  $800,000 (same amount from 2016)
  • NCTA – The Internet & Television Association: $12.8 million  (down from $13.3 million)

The Hill | As Tech Industry Boosts Lobbying Spending, Showbiz…

3 Steps Montana Took. 1st State to Add Net Neutrality. Executive Order included

How did Montana add net nuetrality on the state level? Executive Order

What does Governor Steve Bullock (D) executive order require? internet service providers with state contracts to abide by net neutrality principle:

  • “in order to receive a contract with the state government, internet service providers must not engage in blocking or throttling web content or create internet fast lanes.”

Effective Date: Immediately with a 6 month grace period

The Hill | Montana becomes first state to…

FTC Study identifies 4 cybersecurity issues with EV, Self Driving Cars, Connected Cars

This month the Federal Trade Commission released a paper on cybersecurity issues with conencted cars.

4 Points from the FTC paper:

  • lots of information is gathered and shared, the information must be protected
  • can a vehicle’s safety controlled fuctions be segregated from other functions for public safety?
  • how to best update cars when a new vulnerability is discovered?
  • how to set a base line security standard for connected cars

Anatomy of a Election Cyber Security Agency. 3 Goals of the Agency.

The Prime Miniter of Sweden announced the immediate formation of an agency charged with protecting the integrity of Seden’s elections. 

The new agency will be cahrged with:

  • “psychological defence by identifying, analysing, and responding to external influence campaigns”
  • will not hesitate to expose those who meddle in Swedish elections
  • in coordination with the agency, there will be increased funding for Swedish intelligence and cyber-defence services to monitor external threats
  • the agency…

Regulatory TREND. Imposing Data Security on Credit Reporting Agencies. Read the new Rules from NY

New York’s new rules on credit reporting agencies will do these 4 things:

  • Require consumer credit-reporting agencies to identify “dedicated points of contact” for New York’s Division of Consumer Protection
    • WHY? Ensure consumers can promptly get answers 
  • Mandate that credit-reporting agencies respond “within 10 days” to any requests for information made on behalf of consumers by the Division of Consumer Protection
  • Credit reporting agencies must “plainly disclose” to consumers all fees…

3 Ways The Los Angeles Cyber Center is a Model for Cities

What standards did Los Angeles use in crafting its Cyber Center? Federal Government and industry Standards

The key to the city Cyber Center?  integrated strategic operations center

What does the integrated strategic operations center do? 

  •  “processes cyber threat information from the Homeland Security Department, the FBI and various private sector and non-profit sources and feeds it out to its member operations centers and to city departments”

How does this help unify cyber protections…

State Attorney Generals Raise 3 Issues in Suing Over Net Neutrality Rule

The FCC overturns net neutrality rules and Attorneys General of New York and Washington announce their lawsuit raising these 3 concerns:

  • FCC’s net neutrality repeal harms consumers
  • FCC’s net neutrality repeal harms small business
  • FCC’s net neutrality repeal harms innovation

The Attorney General of Washington State notes that he is 5-0 in his lawsuits against the Trump administration. 

The Hill | Washington AG to sue over net neutrality repeal

 

Draft Data Security Standards are here. National Institute for Standards and Technology Delivers. 3 Key Points.

Input on Draft Standards:

Feedback and comments should be directed to cyberframework@nist.gov(link sends e-mail) by January 19th, 2018.

3 Goals of the draft standards is to align the needs of :

  • policy requirements
  • business needs
  • technological methodologies

Flexible Standards

The standards should eveolve as technology evolves

 

New buzz words are emerging in dagta security policy like: Cyber attack lifecycle

NIST | Cybersecurity Framework Draft Version 1.1