The FTC revised the Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information aka the Safeguards Rule in 2021 and in about 7 weeks the changes become effective. The FTC updates this rule every 20 years or so to make sure that it is still state of the art. The new rule borrowed a lot from New York’s financial […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Tech Industry Pain Good for NSA Rob Joyce, NSA’s cyber director, says that they are seeing a boost in recruitment following waves of layoffs in the tech sector. While he is not giving numbers, any help with mid and high level recruiting would be good for the good guys. Remember that due to the clearance […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Today the FBI arrested the person they say leaked hundreds of classified documents on US surveillance related to the war in Ukraine. The impact of this leak may rise to the level of the damage caused by Edward Snowden in 2013. They continue to find more classified documents as the investigation continues. What is different […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I understand why they want to do this and I hope they have some smart people trying to figure out the rules, but given things move so fast, it is likely that any rule will be obsolete in 6 months and the government is not good at dealing with situations like that. In a document soliciting public […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you sell to the federal government – any agency – you need to pay attention to this. Until now only DoD contractors were going to have to comply with CMMC or NIST SP 800-171. The standard requires 100% compliance with 110 controls; some of them pretty straight forward like having each user having their […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FDA Will No Longer Approve Digital Medical Devices That Are Vulnerable Starting last month, the FDA will REJECT all new applications for any cyber medical device that does not include a cyberattack protection plan. Of course this won’t be perfect, but at least manufacturers will have to make an effort at it. Given that the […]
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