Cybersecurity has reached a tipping point. After decades of private-sector organizations more or less being left to deal with cyber incidents on their own, the scale and impact of cyberattacks means that the fallout from these incidents can ripple across societies and borders.
Now, governments feel a need to “do something,” and many are considering new laws and regulations. Yet lawmakers often struggle to regulate technology — they respond to political urgency, and most don’t have a firm grasp on the technology they’re aiming to control. The consequences, impacts, and uncertainties on companies are often not realized until afterward.
In the United States, a whole suite of new regulations and enforcement are in the offing: the Federal Trade Commission, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Transportation, Department of Energy, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are all working on new rules. In addition, in 2021 alone, 36 states enacted new cybersecurity legislation. Globally, there are many initiatives such as China and Russia’s data localization requirements, India’s CERT-In incident reporting requirements, and the EU’s GDPR and its incident reporting.
Haissam Badih PhD, is the Researcher and Professor at the Department of Math and Computer Science at the Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan, USA. He earned His B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Windsor at Ontario Canada, his M.S. Degree from Lawrence Technological University, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Informatics from Oakland University in 2020. He will begin his academic career at Lawrence Technological University in 2021. He has worked in various software companies in software engineering and architecture.He authored numerous journal and conference papers that were peer-reviewed. His current research and development interests and activities in Project DIAMOnD for Automation Alley in blockchain for building a 3D printer marketplace for the supply chain to support all kinds of business, including 4.0 Industry. This work on blockchain for autonomous systems design, sensor fusion, intelligent agents, automation, human/machine interaction, robotic programming, and interfacing/coding. His research dissertation, entitled "Advance and specialize our application of blockchain for webcam/microphone access control" and "Add Blockchain in A.I. for communication," has worked within research on the Blockchain and Decoy deception research project. He worked on blockchain and decoy deception using smart contracts. This project utilized a Blockchain application that enforces limited access to webcam and microphone devices. We utilize Blockchain's Smart Contract to form a contract between the user's computer and another party connected via a network.
