Businesses have long complained about complying with 46 different cybersecurity/privacy laws (plus the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands) and the lack of a national privacy law. Alabama, Kentucky, New Mexico and South Dakota are the only states without such laws. The states have fired back saying that a national […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As if complying with 47 states individual laws on breaches wasn’t complicated enough, if you are a defense contractor, you now have to comply with DoD rules on disclosing breaches. I suspect that part of this is due to the fact that the DoD thinks that many of the state laws are too loose and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those companies who ask why they should invest in reducing cyber risk when they have cyber breach insurance – here is why. As a result of recent breaches, cyber insurance premiums for those companies whom insurance companies deem to be in high risk industries saw their premiums go up, on average, 32%. In addition, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Former NSA director Michael Hayden says that he would not support [FBI] Director [James] Comey’s demands for access, according to a story by Motherboard. This goes against the “wishes” of the current FBi director and head of the NSA. It is clear to me that if everything is transmitted unencrypted, with weak encryption or with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As many people expected, the European Court Of Justice, the highest court controlling European Union law, ruled in favor of Max Schrems and said that the Safe Habor Agreement, negotiated between the United States and the European Union in the mid 1990s is invalid and does not provide EU citizens with the protections mandated by […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]American Banker ran a piece this morning digesting the Experian breach announced last week. It said it was good that the breach only compromised 15 million T-Mobile customers instead of the hundreds of millions of customers that probably live in the Experian Decision Analytics service platform and that it only took them two weeks to […]
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