On September 27, 2023, The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Japanese National Police Agency (NPA), and the Japanese National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC) released a joint cybersecurity advisory (CSA) concerning the recent activity of […]
Data Protection
New York Continues to Focus on Companies’ Data Security Practices
New York Attorney General Letitia James recently announced two agreements related to data breaches with entities that operate in the education industry. In both instances the entities paid the ransom and received evidence of deletion of the stolen data. Most recently, on October 5, 2023 the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) announced a $49.5 […]
California Proposes Annual Audits to Assess Sufficiency and Compliance of Company Cybersecurity
In late August 2023, the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA” or “Agency”) released a discussion draft of proposed regulations under California’s data privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). Importantly, the proposed regulations set forth more detailed obligations for company cybersecurity programs, including routinely assessing and filing audits with the CPPA. Though these draft […]
Texas Becomes Tenth State to Enact a Comprehensive State Privacy Law
On June 18, 2023, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (HB 4) (“TDPSA”) into law, making Texas the latest contributor to the growing patchwork of comprehensive U.S. state privacy laws. TDPSA takes effect July 1, 2024, except for provisions that enable consumers to designate authorized agents to exercise on […]
NY DFS Releases Revised Proposed Second Amendment of its Cybersecurity Regulation
The New York Department of Financial Services (“NY DFS”) published an updated proposed Second Amendment to its Cybersecurity Regulation (23 NYCRR Part 500) in the New York State Register on June 28, 2023, updating its previous proposed Second Amendment, which was published November 9, 2022. While the language proposed is largely similar to the previous […]