On 29 August 2016, Wapack Labs identified the
growing concern for clarification and understanding of state and federal
legislation and regulatory control regarding company data breaches. The U.S. Congress passed the Cybersecurity
Information Sharing Act (CISA) and was signed into law by the President in
December 2015. This is a good step to
help guide private information notifications in the event of a breach. But many states have outdated, and at times,
ambiguous statues and regulations regarding cyber security; especially how and
when to notify data breach victims. This creates both potential government civil liabilities for companies
of all sizes. Data breaches are no
longer an IT problem, but a company-wide concern. We are providing this information for your situational
awareness.
Publication
date: 30
August 2016
Handling
requirements: Traffic
light protocol (TLP) GREEN
Attribution/Threat
Actors: Data Breaches –
legislation/regulations
Actor Type: All Tier
levels
Potential Targets: USA
Past Reporting: Msg #7859
The full attribution report has been published in its entirety in the Red Sky Alliance portal. For more information please contact the lab directly at 844-4-WAPACK, 603-606-1246, or feedback@wapacklabs.com.
About Wapack Labs
Wapack Labs, located in New Boston, NH is a Cyber Threat Analysis and Intelligence organization supporting the Red Sky Alliance, the FS-ISAC and individual organizations by offering expert level targeted intelligence analysis answering some of the hardest questions in Cyber. Wapack Labs’ engineers, researchers and analysts use deep analysis techniques and visualization to design and deliver transformational cyber-security analysis tools that fuse open source and proprietary information. The intelligence derived from these tools and techniques serve as the foundation of Wapack Labs’ information reporting to the cyber-security teams of its customers and industry partners located around the world.
