Top 10 Gotchas of Cyber Regulation

Cybersecurity regulations are intended to provide oversight for cybersecurity professionals to develop a strong cybersecurity program, but often create confusion and increase costs. With regulations, there is no “sweet spot” that satisfies all constituents and affected parties, and these regulations often have challenges in the application and ongoing enforcement of the rules they contain.

In this course, Pete Lindstrom details his top ten cybersecurity regulation challenges and guidance on how to address them. Pete starts with a brief history of cybersecurity risks and the incidents and issues that spawned the need for regulations. He describes the key regulations within this context and discusses the approaches used in the regulations to address the challenges. Pete also gets into the specific nature of the most prevalent regulations and gives an action plan to address the most common types of “gotchas.”