the federal government and businesses alike
continue to deal with the fallout of the solarwinds attack
weeks after the hack was uncovered and as a new congress convenes it appears that cyber security
is going to be a priority so let's dive into how the new 117th congress and the newly sworn
in members of the biden administration plan to tackle security concerns stick
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we're diving into federal cyber security here in the u.s while cyber security may not be priority
number one of the new biden administration there's still agreement amongst the executive branch and
congress that it is incredibly important at the federal level and at the state and local levels
and senator mark warner has even suggested that especially in the wake of the solarwinds attack
that congress could revisit the possibility of a national data breach notification law while we
can't really give specifics as to what this data breach notification law would look like there
is of course international and national precedent for data privacy and data breach notification laws
and acts internationally you can obviously look at gdpr which has a data breach notification
portion and has been enforced in the eu and nationally we do have a privacy law here for
citizens of california called ccpa while gdpr and ccpa are certainly different and we actually have
a few videos diving into the differences between them that i'll link below there is a precedent
that congress could build upon to establish some sort of national data breach notification law
clause what have you other noteworthy bills in the pipeline that still have to do with cyber security
include a 400 million dollar grant that would give aid to state and local governments to better beef
up their cyber security practices tools what have you and there's also a separate measure
that would give local government support and tools when responding to a ransomware attack we know
that state and especially local governments can be especially susceptible to ransomware attacks
and there's plenty of instances in which local governments have instead of combating ransomware
with it measures or further cyber security measures have opted to just pay the ransom
even though that's very much against federal guidelines so it's possible that these federal
bills and these measures that are being debated and hopefully potentially passed in congress
would give local governments the whether it be manpower or just money to better combat these
ransomware attacks in line with guidance from the fbi and federal officials as i implied earlier
cyber security measures are almost certainly not priority number one for the biden administration
code response for example is probably a lot more pressing especially in these first days weeks
and even months but president biden has already called for 10 billion dollars in cyber security
spending so that's certainly not nothing as more information about how that 10 billion dollars will
be spent comes to light we'll of course continue to update you especially pointing out how that
may affect enterprises but in the meantime i want to hear from you what are you thinking
that that 10 billion should be spent on and are there any specific bills or measures in congress
that you're keeping your eye on when it comes to cyber security let me know in the comments below
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