The Most Hackable Cities:
- Las Vegas
- Memphis
- Charlotte
- Houston
- providence
- Birmingham
- Jacksonville
- West Palm Beach
- Orlando
- Tampa
4 Reasons Local Governments Should Accept Cryptocurrency. Procurement Opportunity.
4 reasons Seminole County, Florida is accepting cryptocurrency:
- eliminates credit card processing fees
- improves payment accuracy
- improves payment transparency
- improves payment efficiency
Is there a procurement opportunity here? yes, Seminole County contracted with BitPay
Business TREND. Growth in Cyber Security Insurance. By the Numbers
For the U.S. market of cyber secuity insurance policies in 2017:
- 32% growth in direct premiums written in year over year growth
- $1.8 billion,
- 2.6 million policies in force, a 24% increase
- claims increased to 9,017 from 5,955
- 56.3% of the claims by packaged policies
- 43.7% of claims by standalone policies
Local Procurement TREND. Cost Saving. Outsourcing Cybersecurity.
In lieu of hiring cyber security employees, local governments are using third party software and hardware to bolster cybersecurity.
What short hand do I need to know for this technology?
- It is “machine learning and AI”
- It can detect cyber threats rapidly
- it allows for large-scale behavioral detection
State Tech | Cities and Counties Turn to Machine Learning to Bolster Cybersecurity
+1 State Considering Bitcoin Campaign Contributions. 5 Quick Points. Be informed in 5 seconds.
State: Colorado
Proposed Rules for bitcoin campaign contributions will:
- follow along with the FEC
- A Colorado Governor candidate was one of the 1st campaigns to accept bitcoin during the candidates congressional run
- includes accounting rules
- that liken cryptocurrency to inkind contributions
- any crypto currency contributions count toward contribution limits
5 Points. Texas Cyber Security Experts Tell Texas What to Do.
Which Texas cybersecurity experts signed this letter to the Texas Secretary of State?
- Scott Aaronson, Professor, University of Texas at Austin
- Chris Bronk, Assistant Professor, University of Houston
- Alvaro Cardenas, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Dallas
- Guofei Gu, Associate Professor, Texas A&M
- Murat Kantarcioglu, Professor, University of Texas at Dallas
- Jiang Ming, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Arlington
- Dan S. Wallach, Professor, Rice University
- Brent Waters, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin
- Greg White, Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio
What 4 priorities did the cybersecurity experts identify?
- updated election security standards and accountability mechanisms
- legislative action
- key phrase: ensure consistent cyber-hygiene
- require election officials to undergo cybersecurity training
- no electronic overseas voting
- Legislature should give the Secretary of State authority to oversee the safeguards of all elections in Texas
- auditable paper trails
- all counties
- mandatory post-election audits
- clear rules for the methodology and size of the audits
- secure voter registration systems
- prepare for disasters by ensuring that voter database servers are capable of both local and offsite failover
What 3 things should the required Study of Texas Election Systems Include?
- investigation of vulnerabilities and risks for a cyber attack against Texas’s voting and voting registration systems
- information on any attempted cyber attack on these systems
- recommendations for protecting a county’s voting system machines and list of registered voters from a cyber attack
Local TREND. Primary Election Hacked in the Iris State
Local May 2018 election that was hacked: Knox County, Tennessee primary for mayor & local races
What kind of hack was used? A DDoS attack routed through 65 countries
Translation of the hack? A lot of computers from all over the world tried to access the web server for the election from 7pm to 10pm causing the election site to crash
The German Response to Protecting Critical Infrastructure from Hackers
Who is offering the suggested solution to combat hackers? The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence service
What is the proposed solution to combat hackers of Germany’s critical infrastructure? to plant malware that gets triggered when the critical infrastructure is hacked.
What does that mean in non-tech term? Fight back by hacking back.
dw.com | German intelligence head warns of cyber attacks on critical infrastructure
Lege TREND. Privacy Advocates from LEFT and RIGHT. What they want in legislation:
- No requirements for tech companies to build in backdoors
- The Secure Data Act
1st State. Data Insurance Law. Regulator Initiated. Your shortcut to being informed:
South Carolina’s H4655 (2018 | SC) will:
- require insurers to establish “strong and aggressive” program to protect companies from a data breach
- require insurers to establish “strong and aggressive” program to protect consumers from a data breach
- what does it cover?
- rules for insurers, agents and other licensed entities covering data security
- investigation and notification of breach
- maintaining an information security program based on ongoing risk assessment
- overseeing third-party service providers
- investigating data breaches
- notifying regulators of a cyber security event
How did this bill begin?
- South Carolina Insurance Director Raymond G. Farmer chaired the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Cybersecurity (EX) Working Group that drafted the bill
Business Insurance | S.C. governor signs insurer cyber security into law