Chapter 4 - Laws, Regulations, and Compliance Flashcards
What are the categories of law
Criminal law - laws that police and law enforcement concern them with and threaten other people’s rights
Civil law - designed to provide an orderly society and govern matters that are not crimes but that require an impartial arbiter to settle between individuals and organizations.
Administrative law - executive orders, policies, procedures, regulations, that govern daily operations of the agency.
Where are Administrative laws published?
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
What is the CFAA
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
crime to:
Access govt systems without authorization
Cause malicious damage in excess of $1000
MOdify med records
Any financial systems
Any combination of computers used to commit offense when not all located in the same state
An ammendment to what act made it illegal to produce malicious code for any reason?
CFAA - Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
What was the purpose of the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act of 1996
Broadens the CFAA to cover computer systems used in international commerce in addition to systems used in interstate commerce.
Extends similar protections to critical infrastructure (railroads, gas pipelines, electric power grids, and telecom systems)
What law requires that federal agencies implement an information security program that covers the agency’s operations?
FISMA - Federal Information Security Management Act
In 2014 President Obama signed into law - modernization of federal government approach to cyber security. Consolidated Cyber security with the Homeland security.
FISMA - Federal Information Systems Modernization Act
What are the two exceptions to the FISMA consolidation of cybersecurity within DHS?
Defense related cyber - DoD
Intelligence related cyber - DNI
A law that charges NIST with the responsibility for coordinating nationwide work on voluntary cybersecurity standards.
Cybersecurity Enhancement Act
Law charging homeland security with establishing a national cybersecurity and communications ntegration center that serves as the interface between federal agencies and civilian orgs for sharing cybersecurity risks, incidents, analysis, and warnings.
National Cybersecurity Protection Act
Intangible assets that take the form of secretive recipes, processes, or production techniques
Intellectual Property
Original works of authorship can be protected by?
Copyright Law Literary music drama sound records architectural graphical
Can copyright protect software such as the look and feel of a graphical interface and/or the ideas and processes?
The courts have gone both ways on the look and feel and ideas and processes are not protected - only the source code.
Do you need to go through copyright court to prove copyright status?
No - original creators have copyright as long as they can prove they were the author.
Law was created to penalize copyright offenders through pirated media.
Digital Millenium Copyright Act
$1 MM fine
10 years prisonment