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On February 12, 2013 President Obama issued a new Executive Order focused on improving cybersecurity for critical infrastructure, by improving information sharing, creating a framework to reduce cyber risk, and identifying critical infrastructure that is at the greatest risk.

There are four key takeaways.  First, many companies that do not believe they are part of the critical infrastructure will be considered critical infrastructure.  Second, the government will be taking a more active role in attempting to have companies designated as ...

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The Lares Institute has just released a new white paper on HIPAA and the recent changes, as well as the role of information superiority.  A link to the paper is here, and it was authored by Kenneth Mortensen, Tina Stow, and Andrew Serwin.

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One of the challenges companies have faced under the Red Flags Rules, part of FACTA, is that the definition of creditor was quite broad, and included a number of business scenarios that most people did not consider to give rise to status as a creditor.  The FTC just released an interim final rule that changes the definition of creditor under the Red Flags Rule, and narrows it.

The whole history of the challenges to the Red Flag Rule are beyond the ...

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Executive Director and CEO Andrew Serwin recently co-authored an article for dataprotectionlaw&policy entitled “USA:FTC COPPA review: redefining children’s privacy in a technology era“, and the article appeared in Volume 9, Issue 10, the October 2012 edition.

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Executive Director and CEO Andrew Serwin recently co-authored an article entitled “Analyzing proposed changes to COPPA: the operator’s role” for dataprotectionlaw&policy, and the article appeared in the September 2012 edition, Volume 09, Issue 09.   The article can be found here.

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Andrew Serwin was recently interviewed by George Chamberlin of the San Diego Daily Transcript regarding cybersecurity and a link to the interview can be found here.

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