Dana Ferguson reports: Faced with a growing threat of cybersecurity breaches, school districts around the country and in Minnesota are turning to local taxpayers and state officials for help in building up their defenses. Voters in at least 17 communities last week weighed ballot questions letting local districts raise tax levies for cybersecurity improvements; more…
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New York Plans Cyber Rules for Hospitals
James Rundle reports: New York regulators Monday plan to issue cybersecurity regulations for hospitals, after a series of attacks crippled operations at medical facilities. Under draft rules reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, New York will require general hospitals to develop and test incident response plans, assess their cybersecurity risks and install security technologies such…
NYDFS Updates Its Cybersecurity Regulation to Protect Against Growing Cyber Threats
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On November 1, 2023, New York Governor Hochul announced that the New York State Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) amended its Cybersecurity Regulation applicable to covered financial institutions. Our previous blog post covered key proposed changes to the Cyber Regulation. The NYDFS, which regulates financial institutions including insurance companies, mortgage brokers and banks, adopted the…
NY Financial Regulator Rolls Out Updated Cybersecurity Standards
Skye Witley reports: New York regulators assigned heightened cybersecurity requirements to banks, insurers, and financial services providers based in the state with the release of finalized rule amendments Wednesday. Covered entities will have to use multifactor authentication, expand cybersecurity governance duties, and conduct consistent threat testing under the regulation updated by the New York Department of Financial…
Colorado GOP Wants Inquiry into Delayed Notification of Data Breach
David Migoya reports: Colorado House Republican leaders on Monday called for an investigation into why Colorado’s higher education agency allegedly failed to timely report a massive data breach this summer. In a two-page letter hand-delivered to Gov. Jared Polis and Attorney General Phil Weiser, five state representatives also urged an inquiry into why thousands potentially…
Personal Touch Holding settles NY Attorney General’s lawsuit stemming from 2021 ransomware incident: will pay $350k, improve security
From a press release from the NYS Attorney General’s Office today: New York Attorney General Letitia James today secured $350,000 from a Long Island-based home health care company, Personal Touch Holding Corporation (Personal Touch), for failing to protect vulnerable New Yorkers’ personal information and health care data. Personal Touch’s poor data security made it vulnerable to…