Cyber Liability
What is Cyber Liability?
Legal and financial exposure arising from cybersecurity incidents, including costs of breach response, regulatory fines, and third-party claims.
Terms that appear alongside cyber liability
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as cyber liability. The number is how many controls name both.
- remediation 2 shared controls
- risk assessment 2 shared controls
- industry self regulation 2 shared controls
- ccpa 2 shared controls
- compliance program 2 shared controls
- consent 2 shared controls
- vendor management 2 shared controls
- audit trail 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern cyber liability
What the standards actually require on cyber liability
Requirements naming cyber liability across 2 standards, quoted from the control text.
Section 9 of Kentucky CDPA establishes the Attorney General sole enforcement framework + closely modelled on VCDPA Virginia template. (1) Section 9 AG Sole Authority: (a) Attorney General exclusive enforcement;
KY-CDPA-Attorney-General-AG-Enforcement-Sole-30-Day-Cure-Period-7500-Civil-Penalty-Per-Violation · Kentucky CDPA Attorney General Enforcement + Sole Authority + 30-Day Cure Period + USD 7,500 Civil Penalty Per Violation + No Private Right of Action + Injunctive Relief + Attorneys' Fees + Section 9 Enforcement + Children's Data + Sensitive Data Heightened →Section 10 of KOSA establishes the enforcement framework limiting authority to FTC and State Attorneys General. (1) Section 10(a) FTC Federal Enforcement: (a) FTC has sole federal authority;
KOSA-Enforcement-FTC-Section10-State-AG-Sole-Civil-Penalty-43792-Per-Violation-No-Private-Right-of-Action · KOSA Enforcement + Section 10 + FTC Sole Federal Authority + State AG Concurrent + NO Private Right of Action + Civil Penalty up to USD 43,792 Per Violation + Injunctive Relief + State AG Notice to FTC + Multi-State Coordination + Cure Period for Smaller Platforms →Questions people ask about cyber liability
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