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What specific data should manufacturers be concerned about? protection of vital manufacturing data that contains controls, testing, and product performance
Which 3 stakeholders find the data security important for manufacturers? businesses, consumers, and regulators
Machine Design | Rethinking Data Security in Ultrasonic Welding and Manufacturing
Where: Portland, OR
What: City Council passed an ordinance, the 1st in the nation, to ban both the public and private use of facial recognition software in public accommodations
How is Portland’s ban on facial recognition software different than those in Boston, San Francisco and Oakland, CA? Portland bans private entities from using the software in public accomodation
The exceptions to the ban? Face ID to open your own mobile phone
What 3 reasons did elected officials offer to support the ban?
How have software companies pivoted? Amazon, IBM and Microsoft have scaled back their sales of the software to law enforcement
The Hill | Portland adopts landmark facial recognition ordinances
The non-profit that seeks out security breaches by apps:IDAC
What is IDAC goal? To protect consumer data
What recent discovery did it make? A fertility app on android phones was collecting a lot of personal data with no opt out for consumers
Why was the IDAC alerted? the App masked personal health data in the same way TikTok was masking data that it sent out
Is this new, finding a breach of personal health data on Apps? No, last year Consumer Reports identified Ovia, a pregnancy-tracking app that shares users’ data with their employers and insurers.
The Solarium Commission that delivered a list of policy recommendations earlier this year is working on supply chain policy recommendation next.
Why this new action? COVID
Are the recommendations being targeted at certain issues? Yes, ““We have to have a comprehensive information technology communications strategy to counter what could be perceived as Chinese aggression and to ensure the continued availability and trustworthiness of our critical technology supply chain,”
Inside Cybersecurity: The Cyberspace Solarium Commission is working up white papers
The pilot program is the brain child of: Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
The governments that have joined: Arizona, Louisiana, Massachusetts and Texas, along with Maricopa County, Ariz
What is this pilot project? cybersecurity automation by identifying the threats that should be prioritized and triaged
The goals for the state governments: cut down on manual tasks & promote the sharing of actionable threat information
State Tech | States Join Automated Security Pilot with MS-ISAC, Johns Hopkins
The parties: Comcast & Reading (PA) School Board
The purpose of the contract: remote learning
What had the School Board tried before this contract to expand access to broadband for students? Added outdoor Wi-Fi to 14 school district buildings
What benefits will the district receive for its $700,000 expenditure?
Does Comcast have other similar partnerships to offer broadband to students? Yes, in Chicago; Atlanta; Pittsburgh; Sacramento, Calif.; Portland, Ore.; & Arlington, Va.
Reading Eagle via Governing | Reading Contracts With Comcast to Get Students Broadband
How did Chief Information Officers and those who work in data and data security get a bump in their profile because of COVID? Because the spread and data related to the coronavirus rose in importance, so did the import of those in charge of the data.
Instead of data being thought of as a defense (protect ourselves from hackers), data became an offense by showing how data can show the spread and containment of disease.
CIO Dive | The profile of the chief data officer rose in the pandemic
The University of Chicago is pairing their cybersecurity experts with local election officials to assist with cyber security issues surrounding the November election.
What is the Univeristy of Chicago’s program called? Election Cyber Surge & began with 50 volunteer experts who have been vetted
MSNBC | Volunteer hacker army boosts U.S. election cybersecurity
Writing on the wall with the FCC calling for comment on security threats in the existing supply chain rulemaking.
Why should this matter? Data security standards will fall into place in state and local government contracts too.
How e-commerce is fairing in 2020 for retailers overall:
For Home Depot specifically:
What tech devices were quickly adopted: