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Exploring the ePrivacy Directive

There are a variety of cybersecurity regulations in Europe, including the ePrivacy Directive, which focuses on enhancing data protection, processing personal data, and privacy in the digital age. This Directive, recently updated with the ePrivacy regulation, continues the European Union’s ongoing efforts to create cohesive and comprehensive European data protection and cybersecurity standards across all member states.

GDPR Compliance for US Companies

Numerous U.S.-based companies that operate online have customers from the European Union (EU) or other parts of the European Economic Area (EEA). If your business engages with these customers, it is subject to the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This extensive data privacy regulation has an impact on many U.S. entities due to its extraterritorial reach.

The SEC's New Cybersecurity Regulations Part II: What Shareholders Should Know

It seems everyone is concerned about cybersecurity these days, and the investor community is no different. Shareholders are reading the headlines—ransomware attacks, data breaches, infrastructure disruptions—and they are wondering how these incidents could impact the companies that they invest in. Shareholders are about to get a lot more information from companies in the months ahead. In July 2023, the U.S.

An Overview of India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act (2023)

After years of debates, discussions, and negotiation delays, the Central Government of India published its Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP) on August 11, 2023. In its last week before being enacted, the Act rapidly passed throughout both houses of Parliament and was ascended into publication by President Droupadi Murmu. India is the 19th country within the Group of 20 (G20) to pass a comprehensive data protection law.

Why Legal Regulation Shifts Responsibility for Software Supply Chain Security to Vendors

In the face of increasingly impactful malicious attacks, governments of leading economies have turned their attention to the software supply chain security. Regulations like the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) for financial institutions and the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) for software and hardware providers Australia’s 2023-2030 cybersecurity strategy, and the U.S.

Navigating APRA's CPS 234: A Universal Metric

In an era where digital innovation has become the lifeblood of businesses, cybersecurity has taken center stage in the corporate world. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) recognized this need and introduced CPS 234, a regulation that puts cybersecurity at the forefront of APRA-regulated entities. APRA is currently conducting an independent tripartite cyber assessment of compliance with CPS234, which took effect in 2019.

Federal Agencies Face 9/30/23 Deadline to Submit Detailed Plan for Implementing 2021 Cybersecurity Executive Order

In mid-August, U.S. national security advisor Jake Sullivan sent a memo to cabinet secretaries of agencies outside the Pentagon dinging them for not complying with deadlines and steps in the 2021 Executive Order 14208 on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. In doing so, he set a new timeclock ticking for submitting a detailed implementation plan by the end of September… just a few weeks away from this writing.