Cybersecurity efforts are being bolstered around the globe. Chinese President Xi Jinping has announced he will preside over a cybersecurity and information security working group. And in the U.S., California is set to make it front-and-center after Attorney General Kamala Harris announced Thursday that cybersecurity will be a key focus for the California Department of Justice. This news comes less than a month after the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) finalized its cybersecurity framework. The framework “marks a welcome change privacy professionals should embrace,” writes Rich Santalesa, CIPP/US, a data security expert and member of the Sm@rtedgeLaw Group. In this post for Privacy Perspectives, Santalesa looks into the final framework and why, ultimately, it may be good for privacy pros.
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