Cyber Security And Privacy Issues

Cyber-Security
PRIVACY ISSUES

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Cyber-Security
Privacy in today’s world
Privacy is a major concern in today’s world. It is not only critical for the management of the
computer networks to prevent the data but also safeguard basic laws of the people related to
privacy. This has become a greater challenge because of the numbers of attacks that are going
on in different parts of the world and at the lack of knowledge of the people (Green, 2020).
Corporate privacy breach can lead to huge failures for the companies especially in terms of
the fact that many important data gets lost in the process and can go into the hands of the
competitors which reduces their power to gain competitive advantage over the rivals. The
same is the case with individuals. In this assignment the congressional bill dealing with
privacy issues will be discussed.
Unlike EU has GDPR as the privacy law that ensures data protection in a better manner.
Consumer-oriented privacy laws are still in a state of bills. There are four privacy laws that
act as protecting the data in U.S. namely “US privacy act 1974”, “Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
1999”, “Health Insurance portability and accountability act 1996” and “Children’s online
privacy protection act 2000”. In the year 2014, congressional passed five bills related to
cyber-security (Skeath, 2014). Sadly, none of these bills addressed greater concerns that deal
with more combative cybersecurity challenges like private firm’s immunity that shares threat
related to cybersecurity information with the federal government. Bills focus on smaller
cyber-security challenges along with the procedures and structures of the federal agencies
which overlook cybersecurity. S.2519 and S.2521 are the two majors that are majorly tilted
towards centralising the government’s efforts related to cybersecurity and improving sharing
of information with the companies from private sector. Third in a row is S.1353 that gives the
power to create voluntary set of cybersecurity standards for the private sector. All these three
bills help in strengthening the efforts of the government towards the corporate privacy. The
other two bills H.R. 2592 and S.1691 concentrate on empowering Homeland Security’s
recruitment efforts and the workforce (Singh, 2020).
National Cybersecurity Protection Act of 2014 provides National Cybersecurity and
Communications Integration Centre a power to give a platform to government and the private
sector to share information related to technical assistance, incident response and cyber
security threats. Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014 addresses about the standards and
best practices that can protect cybersecurity of people. In management of data of an