As part of a spending bill passed at the end of 2015, Congress passed cybersecurity legislation including the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (CISA). While CISA has gotten the lion’s share of attention, also passed were provisions directing the Health and Human Services secretary to “establish and regularly update a set of voluntary cybersecurity best practices standards” for the health care industry, and “cybersecurity authorizations and reforms for the federal government.” In this Privacy Tracker blog post, the Hogan Lovells Privacy Team sums up the provisions that were passed and what privacy pros need to know about them.
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