News & Notes: July 9th, 2021
(News & Notes may be updated throughout the day…check back for more!)
- China’s cyber watchdog, the Cyberspace Administration, an agency set-up during Chinese President Xi JinPing’s first term is taking, “a lead role in Beijing’s push to strengthen interagency oversight of companies listed overseas, especially those traded in the U.S., and to tighten rules for future foreign listings”. via WSJ
- Update…China Orders Stores to Remove More Apps Operated by Didi GLobal’s China Arm via WSJ
- ”Stellantis said it plans to spend more than $35.5 billion through 2025 to release an array of new electrified vehicles.” Not mentioned is how much they plan on spending towards the cybersecurity of said vehicles. via WSJ
- Semi-conductor chip shortage continues to take a toll on global outputs. via WSJ
- Five Key Considerations When Adopting a Seed Vault Approach for Ransomware Protection via ISACA
- Use a positive pressure design.
- Use versioned and scheduled backups.
- Access to the seed vault should require multiple layers of access control.
- The seed vault backup should only be connected to source systems when backups or recovery actions are being performed.
- Electronic seed vaults should be contained in a secondary provider’s technical infrastructure or in a separate operating tenant in the current provider.
