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NEW TECH: This free tool can help gauge, manage third-party cyber risk; it’s called ‘VRMMM’

The Last Watchdog

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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New York Enacts Stricter Data Cybersecurity Laws

Data Matters

Furthermore, although entities that already comply with the breach notification requirements under certain state or federal laws (such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the New York Department of Financial Services cybersecurity regulations (23 N.Y.C.R.R. codified at N.Y.

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Executive Order on access to Americans’ bulk sensitive data and Attorney General proposed regulations – Part 2

Data Protection Report

Approximately at the same time as the Executive Order that we described in Part 1 was issued, the Attorney General (AG) unofficially released 90 pages of Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM), which will become official once published in the Federal Register. Which countries are “countries of concern”?

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