Infosec was literally the last item in Trump's policy plan, yet major changes are likely on his watch The Trump administration came to office this week without a detailed information security policy, but analysis of cabinet nominees’ public remarks and expert comments suggest it will make significant changes in the field. The returned President certainly can’t afford to ignore cybersecurity, given the USA’s critical …
without it organisations will do the minimum, especially if the cost of failure is borne by others - especially if those others are too small to be able to fight back.
Regulation has a cost but it also has benefits.
Too much regulation is bad, too little is bad. There is a balance, but finding it is hard and might only be obvious in retrospect.
In the US and most of the world, courts have decided that the consumer liability for companies with sloppy IT security is basically zero.
I mean, it's not *exactly* zero, but close enough.
If this was set to a more appropriate number, behavior would change very rapidly.
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