Industry Regulations

Banning ransomware payments is one of the most common and most controversial mechanisms proposed to curtail the recent growth of criminal incidents and the national security problems they cause. Neuberger, a key Biden advisor, offered some insight into the conversation happening behind closed doors.

One of the most widely circulated policy ideas to curtail ransomware would be to treat cryptocurrencies as a bonafide component of the financial system: require cryptocurrency exchanges to abide by regulations that reduce anonymity and prevent money laundering. SC Media broke down the potential.

One issue states have traditionally faced with grant funding is that one time payments cannot fund projects requiring long term employement, training and equipment upgrades.

Whether it’s for the European Union’s GDPR or medical or financial regs, today’s columnist, Joe Adamczyk of Exchange Analytics, says companies need to develop a stronger compliance strategy.

Today’s columnist, Chad Gross of A-LIGN, reflects on the progess the industy has made with data privacy since GDPR went into effect three years ago.

Though contracts would not require remediation of vulnerabilities brought in through the programs, the government would be able to not renew contracts with companies whose handling of vulnerabilities raised researchers' ire.

The TSA order marks the first mandatory cybersecurity practices for pipelines, and what some expect will be the first of more standards that the government puts in place to regulate how critical infrastructure operators protect networks and systems.