Cyber Policy

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Policy Explainer

A Full House: China’s Home-Grown Cyber Threat Research Powerhouse

If cybersecurity were a poker game, China has revealed a game-changing hand with its recently rolled out Regulation on the Management of Network Product Security Vulnerabilities (RMSV). This relatively new law ...

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News & Events

River Deep, Mountain High: The Increasingly Challenging Cybersecurity Regulatory Landscape

The case for mandatory cybersecurity requirements is strong. Opt-in guidelines and recommendations can only push cybersecurity so far and, as CISA Director Jen Easterly has said, “we can’t PSA our way out of th...

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Policy Explainer

Determining Materiality of Cyber Events: A Guide for the New SEC Cybersecurity Disclosure Rule

Risk managers at public companies have always needed a process for determining materiality as it pertains to their shareholders. A factory being wiped out in a hurricane or a union strike is information that co...

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Policy Explainer

SEC Pushes Ahead with New Cyber Rules

At the tail end of July, the SEC finalized a proposed rule requiring incident and other disclosures. The new rule is already facing significant industry backlash with even the Chamber of Commerce slamming the r...

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Primers

On the Chess Board: Geopolitics and Cybersecurity

While the vast majority of cyberattacks are criminal activity rather than state-affiliated operations, these kinds of attacks are still incredibly important to understand and prepare for, should they come to yo...

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Monthly Newsletter

Consortium Networks Monthly Newsletter: August

This month’s edition of the Consortium Networks Monthly Newsletter is a huge policy roundup! Our semi-annual Washington Watch is out along with an overview of the current state of data privacy regulation ...

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Policy Explainer

A State-by-State Data Privacy Roundup

As it stands today, 11 states in the United States have passed comprehensive data privacy laws with many of these just going through in the first half of this year. Comprehensive data privacy goes hand-in-hand ...

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Washington Watch

Washington Watch: Summer 2023

Written by: Caroline Grace Parisher, Parsa Sedghi, and Sarah Mollin Introduction  Washington Watch is an amalgamation of executive, congressional, and judicial action on various topics within cyberse...

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Monthly Newsletter

Consortium Networks’ Monthly Newsletter: July

Welcome back to the Consortium Networks monthly newsletter, now sent out on Monday. Hopefully, this change will help out with clearing out that inbox ahead of the weekend! Let us know what you think. Th...

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Policy Explainer

This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

The Best Day March 3rd, 2023, was an exciting day in the cybersecurity regulatory space. A memo released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) marked the first federal mandatory cyber regulation outsi...