{"id":585,"date":"2016-11-09T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2016\/11\/09\/legislation-protecting-white-hat-hackers\/"},"modified":"2016-11-09T22:50:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T22:50:00","slug":"legislation-protecting-white-hat-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/legislation-protecting-white-hat-hackers\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislation Protecting White Hat Hackers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The flaw in cybersecurity law:<\/strong>\u00a0Not modernizing the law to address white hat hackers<\/p>\n<p><strong>The \u00a0goals of the legislative fixes:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>legislation more friendly to legitimate research<\/li>\n<li>by improving\u00a0relationship improves between white-hat hackers &amp;\u00a0the owners of the products they investigate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The legislative fixes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The research by white hat hackers has to be for security purposes only.<\/li>\n<li>The exemption covers consumer devices, voting machines, medical devices, but not things like critical infrastructure, airplanes and major hospital equipment.<\/li>\n<li>The product being investigated by white hat hackers has to have been lawfully acquired.<\/li>\n<li>The white hat hacker\u00a0research has to be done in a safe environment so techniques used to hack or otherwise compromise a product are not released in the wild.<\/li>\n<li>The white hats\u00a0cannot violate other laws.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/3138504\/security\/protection-of-white-hat-hackers-slow-in-coming.html\">CSO Online |\u00a0Protection of white-hat hackers slow in coming<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The flaw in cybersecurity law:<\/strong>\u00a0Not modernizing the law to address white hat hackers<\/p>\n<p><strong>The \u00a0goals of the legislative fixes:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>legislation more friendly to legitimate research<\/li>\n<li>by improving\u00a0relationship improves between white-hat hackers &amp;\u00a0the owners of the products they investigate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The legislative fixes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The research by white hat hackers has to be for security purposes only.<\/li>\n<li>The exemption covers consumer devices, voting machines, medical devices, but not things like critical&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}