Is California blazing yet another legal Data Protection trail? Information Week just posted a blog on California SB-1186 (not yet signed into law). It essentially adds more prescriptive granularity to the state’s existing SB-1386, which is more or less the grandfather of the other 45 states’ data breach notification laws. Essentially, SB-1186 says that when Read more…
Tags: data breach, Data Protection, government, law, Risk and Compliance
Not content with naming-and-shaming companies who break the HIPAA/HITECH health regulations through the normal press, The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is now reporting companies who lose control of more than 500 people’s records on their Web site. A duty to do this comes via section 13402(e)(4) of the HITECH act: “4) Posting Read more…
Tags: Compliance, Data Protection, HIPAA, law, legal, Risk and Compliance, security
Today President Barack Obama recognized that cybersecurity of critical U.S. public and private infrastructure is essential to our national security and economic interests. In a speech at the White House, which I was honored to attend, the president unveiled the highly anticipated 60-day Cybersecurity Review and declared that the country’s efforts to deter, prevent, detect Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, Dave DeWalt, dewalt, government, law, legal
On April 1st 2009, senators John D. Rockefeller IV, Evan Bayh , Bill Nelson and Olympia Snowe annouced the introduction of the “Cybersecurity Act of 2009″. I personally find some of the provisions of the bill quite interesting such as the section dedicated to centralizing vulnerability information, funding research through the National Science Foundation (NSF), Read more…
Tags: government, law, president obama, regulation
I was talking with a friend of mine today about the state of the Web in regards to data breach, privacy and Web site security and this interesting question arose. “Should the government issue tickets for vulnerabilities?” I was kinda shocked at the idea at first and then I started to wonder how this could Read more…
Tags: law, regulations
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