The Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act of 2022, a bill that narrowly failed to become law last year, was passed in the Senate on Tuesday, March 1 as a package of cybersecurity measures that would require operators of critical infrastructure and federal civilian agencies to report cyber incidents to the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and […]
Crisis & Data Breach Response
EDPB Issues New Guidance for Assessing Personal Data Breaches under the EU GDPR
On Monday, 3 January 2022, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) published the finalized version of its regulatory guidance entitled “Examples regarding Personal Data Breach Notification” (the “Guidelines”), following a public consultation on a draft set of guidelines in 2021. The finalized Guidelines are a practice-oriented, and case-based set of examples that leverage the experiences […]
CISA Issues Statement on Log4j Critical Vulnerability
Log4j is a java-based tool from Apache’s open source library used for parsing logs that never seems to have made headlines before this past weekend. Now, following the December 9th public announcement of a vulnerability in this tool, public and private sector security partners are issuing warnings about this “critical vulnerability.” While the full scope […]
The Cybersecurity Incident Reporting Requirements Fail in the Latest Version of the National Defense Authorization Act
On December 7, 2021, the House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 (NDAA), which notably excluded any cybersecurity incident reporting requirements. In September, the House approved a previous version of the bill that included a mandatory breach notification provision that would have required the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity […]
China’s Initial Draft Regulations on the Management of Online Data Security: Important Takeaways
On November 14, 2021, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) released draft Regulations on the Management of Online Data Security (the “Regulations”) for China’s data privacy and security laws, including the Cybersecurity Law (CSL), Data Security Law (DSL), and Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL). Consistent with such laws, the Regulations broadly apply to processing […]