Lege Trend: Criminalizing Ransome Ware. Read the Bill.

State: Indiana

Indiana legislation: HB 1444

What Indiana’s legislation does to penalize ransomeware users:

  • Creates a new cyber crime for ransomeware
  • Currently ransomeware would be a misdemeanor, this bill makes it a felony

Do other states treat ransomeare differently from other cyber crimes? Yes, California and Wyoming

SC Media | Cybercrime bills advance in two states

4 Prong Approach to Student Data Privacy

Wyoming legislature had a package of student data privacy bills which will:

  • A bill to protect college students’ work and privacy- passed
  • 2 bills protecting students’ digital information privacy
  • A bill which would require the state superintendent and other agencies to develop guidelines for student data privacy, security and privacy- passed

Uinta County Herald | Legislative session wraps

Student Data Bill in the West. Lowers Privacy. Moves Privacy to Schools.

State: California

The student data security bill:  Removes schools from the  California Electronic Communications Privacy Act

Where would student daat security responsibility lie? each school district

The profferred reasons why: Cyber bullying, schools need access to student electronic use

Record Bee | Bill would strip privacy protections from students and teachers

California’s AB 165 (2017)

Lege Trend. There is No Place Like Home. There is No Place Like Home. Home has a new Executive Cybersecurity Agency.

State: Kansas

Details of the new Kansas agency on cybersecurity:

  •  centralizing cybersecurity operations of state government within a new Cabinet-level agency
    • Kansas Information Technology Enterprise Agency.
  • $10 M in annual funding just to combat hackers
  • Exempts:
    • Elected state officials
    • Board of Regents’ at Kansas’ colleges and universities
    • Will exempt pension systems based on federal investment standards

Kansas House Bills 2331 and 2359 (2017)

Hutchinson News | In effort to shore up cybersecurity, Kansas panel supports formation of agency

Lege Trend. Agencies + Outside Consortiums. For Local Governments. Procurement Opportunities.

The lawmakers: Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas)

The legislative concept: Allow agencies, like Department of Homeland Security, to work with consortia

What could the private entities do for the agencies?

  • help train local law enforcement and other government
  • develop information sharing programs
  • plan local cybersecurity strategies

The Hill | Bipartisan bill would let DHS team with consortiums on cybersecurity

3 Goals of the Peach State's Cyber Innovation Center

Goals of Georgia’s Cyber Innovation Center:

  • bring together government, universities and the private sector to develop and practice protocols that will mitigate attacks
  • protect  Georgia’s citizens, businesses and institutions
  • give Georgia’s technology economy a boost

Georgia’s Investment in the Cyber Innovation Center:

  • Millions in state funds
  • 15,000 sq.ft. facility to be an incubator for startup cybersecurity companies

State Tech Magazine | Q&A: Georgia CIO Calvin Rhodes on Launching a Cyber Innovation Center

Smart Card Alliance is now the Secure Technology Alliance. 5 Goals

  • Influencing standards and best practices that are relevant to the understanding, adoption and widespread application of secure solutions, including smart cards, embedded chip technology, and related hardware and software
  • Serving as an educational resource to its members and industry stakeholders implementing secure solutions
  • Providing a forum for cutting-edge discussions and projects on issues surrounding the implementation of secure solutions
  • Maintaining a voice in public policy that affects adoption and implementation of smart card, embedded chip and other security technologies
  • Supporting the adoption and implementation of smart cards and smart card technology

Secure Technology Alliance | Smart Card Alliance Becomes Secure Technology Alliance as the Organization Expands Its Mission to Include a Broader View of Security Technologies