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Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups.

Krebs on Security

Experts say the biggest reason ransomware targets and/or their insurance providers still pay when they already have reliable backups is that nobody at the victim organization bothered to test in advance how long this data restoration process might take. That’s why tabletop exercises are incredibly important.

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Understanding HIPAA: A Guide to Avoiding Common Violations

Armstrong Archives

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ensures individuals’ health data protection and privacy. This includes insurance companies, nurses, and doctors. For example, imagine a hospital employee accidentally shares a patient’s medical records with someone who shouldn’t have seen them.

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Cybersecurity Standards for the Insurance Sector – A New Patchwork Quilt in the US?

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

In the past two years, multiple state bills that have been introduced in the US to provide for cybersecurity requirements and standards to the insurance sector, with recent legislative activity taking place in particular within the States of Ohio, South Carolina, and Michigan. NYDFS: Setting a new bar for state cybersecurity regulation.

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

AIIM

For example, under GDPR data subjects and/or regulators may now pursue direct remedies against data processors in the event of infringement of obligations, whereas such remedies did not exist under the prior data privacy regulation. Want more information?

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The Good, Bad, And The Ugly: Key Takeaways From California’s New Privacy Law

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

This page will enable consumers to exercise the right to opt-out of the sale of their personal information. Businesses will be prohibited from discriminating against any consumer for exercising their rights under the new law. Anti-Discrimination Provisions. IP address, browsing history, etc.)

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The Good, Bad, And The Ugly: Key Takeaways From California’s New Privacy Law

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

This page will enable consumers to exercise the right to opt-out of the sale of their personal information. Businesses will be prohibited from discriminating against any consumer for exercising their rights under the new law. Anti-Discrimination Provisions. IP address, browsing history, etc.)

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Regulatory Update: NAIC Spring 2019 National Meeting

Data Matters

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Spring 2019 National Meeting (Spring Meeting) in Orlando, Florida, from April 6 to 9, 2019. ceding insurer could be eligible for the same reduced collateral requirements that would apply to qualifying EU reinsurers under the revised CFR Model Laws.