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The Act Incentivizing the Adoption of Cybersecurity Standards for Businesses goes into effect on Oct. 1. Read the entire bill here. Gov. Lamont held a signing ceremony at the University of Connecticut Tech Park in Storrs. Supported by the state’s business community, Lamont said the legislation protects businesses from punitive damages if personal or restricted information is improperly accessed, maintained, communicated, or processed, so long as such businesses have adopted and adhered to appropriate cybersecurity measures. It does not diminish other important legal rights and actions t...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Only four months in and 2021 has already been a big year for state cybersecurity safe harbor legislation.  Two states, Utah and Connecticut, have recently enacted or introduced a breach litigation safe harbor to incentivize businesses to protect personal information by adopting industry-recognized cybersecurity frameworks such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework and the Center for Internet Security's (CIS) Critical Security Controls. Utah ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: In mid-March, Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed into law the Cybersecurity Affirmative Defense Act (HB80) (“the Act”), an amendment to Utah’s data breach notification law, creating several affirmative defenses for persons (defined below) facing a cause of action arising out of a breach of system security, and establishing the requirements for asserting such a defense. In short, the Act seeks to incentivize individuals, associations, corporations, and other entities (“persons”) to maintain reasonable safeguards to protect pe...

Wednesday, April 7, 2021 In mid-March, Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed into law the Cybersecurity Affirmative Defense Act (HB80) (“the Act”), an amendment to Utah’s data breach notification law, creating several affirmative defenses for persons (defined below) facing a cause of action arising out of a breach of system security, and establishing the requirements for asserting such a defense. In short, the Act seeks to incentivize individuals, associations, corporations, and other entities (“persons”) to maintain reasonable safeguards to protect personal information by prov...