How to Prepare for New Cybersecurity Mandates

🔒 Cyber GRC: Essential Steps in Light of SEC Cyber Rule, NIST CSF 2.0, and CISA CIRCA 🔒 In today's dynamic digital landscape, managing cybersecurity goes beyond merely protecting systems. It's about Cyber GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance)—a comprehensive approach to aligning cybersecurity measures with business strategy, mitigating risks, and ensuring compliance with regulations. With the recent SEC Cyber Rule, NIST CSF 2.0, and CISA CIRCA, Cyber GRC's importance has reached new heights. Here's how you can leverage Cyber GRC to stay ahead: Governance: Establish a robust cybersecurity governance structure that sets clear policies and responsibilities. Define how your organization's cyber strategy aligns with business goals and industry standards like the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0. Risk Assessment: Regularly evaluate cyber risks to identify vulnerabilities and potential threats. Incorporate CISA CIRCA guidelines to manage cyber incidents effectively, minimizing business impact. Compliance: Ensure adherence to the new SEC Cyber Rule, which mandates disclosure of cyber incidents and proactive measures to safeguard data. Keep up-to-date with evolving regulations to maintain compliance and avoid penalties. Incident Response: Develop a comprehensive incident response plan, integrating guidance from CISA CIRCA and NIST CSF 2.0. Test and refine it regularly to ensure swift action when needed. Continuous Improvement: Cyber GRC is an ongoing process. Monitor performance, conduct audits, and adapt strategies to address emerging threats and regulatory changes. By integrating Cyber GRC into your organization's DNA, you can navigate the evolving cyber landscape confidently. This holistic approach safeguards against risks, maintains compliance, and ensures your cyber strategy supports business growth. How is your organization adapting to the new regulatory landscape?

Cybersecurity is complex enough for CISOs. Now NYDFS 500.13 is adding another wrinkle. By November 1, 2025, financial institutions must comply with NYDFS Section 500.13 on technology asset management and data retention. As a security leader, you’re already balancing protecting sensitive data while keeping systems operational. Here’s what NYDFS 500.13 means: 🛡 Your cybersecurity policies must include physical and digital asset inventory, device management, end-of-life (EOL) management, and vulnerability management. 🗑 Technology asset tracking is now a mandate, requiring key details such as owner, location, sensitivity, EOL date, and recovery time objectives (RTO). Regular updates to asset inventories are also non-negotiable. 🔄 Non-public information must be securely disposed of when physical assets reach EOL, with established policies to prove compliance. CISOs are no strangers to evolving regulatory landscapes. But there’s a main challenge to this new regulation: disjointed systems, unreliable data, and manual processes make compliance a moving target. That’s where modern ITAM steps in, helping CISOs: ✔ Automate inventory tracking, from owner and location to EOL data. ✔ Integrate vulnerability management workflows to align with your policies. ✔ Aggregate, normalize, and enrich data across systems for a single source of truth. ✔ Ensure audit readiness by keeping policies and data aligned with regulatory requirements. Think bigger than compliance: These changes will transform your security from reactive to resilient.

The draft of the new HIPAA cybersecurity rules dropped today, and it includes some major changes. 11 Big takeaways in proposal: 1) Enhanced Risk Management: 1.a) Formalizes and expands the risk analysis process to include evolving threats like ransomware and supply chain vulnerabilities. 1.b) Mandates comprehensive documentation of risk management activities, ensuring organizations take a more proactive and structured approach. 2) MFA required for all remote access systems containing ePHI 3) Mandates regular technical vulnerability assessments, such as penetration testing, to identify and mitigate security gaps 4) Requires encryption of ePHI at rest and in transit, adhering to NIST-recommended standards 5) Requires a formalized incident response plan with clear steps for detecting, containing, mitigating, and reporting incidents involving ePHI. 6) Formalizes supply chain risk management by requiring risk assessments for third-party vendors and integrating cybersecurity requirements into contracts and vendor oversight. 7) Mandates tailored cybersecurity training for specialized roles, such as incident response teams or system administrators. 8) Requires designated cybersecurity governance structures, ensuring accountability for cybersecurity policies and strategies. 9) Requires continuous monitoring tools and enhanced logging capabilities to detect and respond to anomalous activity. 10) Expands disaster recovery planning to specifically address cybersecurity considerations, including ransomware scenarios. 11) Updates and clarifies definitions to align with modern threats and technology, ensuring clearer compliance expectations and expanding scope to fit modern threat landscapes. #HealthcareCompliance #cybersecurity #riskmanagement #healthtech Link to proposed changes in comments 👇