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U.S. and Foreign Cybersecurity and Intelligence Agencies Recommend Measures to Counteract Threat of Russian Cyberattacks

Data Matters

The advisory was promptly endorsed by the National Cyber Security Centre, a division of Government Communications Headquarters (“GCHQ”), a UK intelligence agency. government, especially in light of ongoing tensions between the U.S. This is an important public action by the U.S. and Russia in Ukraine.

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California Legislature Passes Bill to Establish the Genetic Information Privacy Act, Pending Governor’s Signature

Hunton Privacy

Not disclosing, subject to specified exceptions, a consumer’s genetic data to certain entities ( e.g. , those responsible for making decisions regarding health insurance, life insurance or employment). Violations of the Act are subject to civil penalties. Department of Health and Human Services pursuant to HIPAA and the HITECH Act.

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Cybersecurity Management Lessons from Healthcare Woes

eSecurity Planet

million patient’s information caused by a third party tracker installed on the Kaiser patient portal. Steve Stone, the Head of Rubrik Zero Labs, adds that “we advocate that governments and private industry evaluate and enable recoverable backups for healthcare and a recurring sensitive data evaluation/reporting construct.

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GDPR Compliance Obligations: The relationship between Data Controllers and Third-Party Processors

AIIM

Article 28 lays out the obligation requirements that govern the relationship between data controllers and processors. Third party processor agreements need to be reviewed in the context of GDPR compliance obligations, particularly, compliance accountability, data transfer provisions and data security requirements.

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Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

eSecurity Planet

IT security policies : Establish benchmarks, goals, and standards that can be used for measuring successful implementation of security controls. Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) management: Aligns security goals with business goals and regulatory requirements that apply to the data or the organization.

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Malaysian Data Protection Law Takes Effect

Hunton Privacy

The law does not apply to Malaysia’s federal government or to its state governments. At present, these include data users in the communications, banking and finance, insurance, health care, tourism and hospitality, transportation, education, direct sales, services, real estate and utilities sectors.