Changes in laws and legislation due to Cybersecurity

As attacks against computer systems have increased in recent years (in the last eight, more than 7.1 billion identities have been exposed, for these reasons), the public authorities have been reinforcing and building a legal framework each increasingly demanding in terms of laws of cybersecurity. The security of personal data is something that customers of any service are increasingly aware of, be it digital or traditional. Offering guarantees about the proper treatment that will be carried out to the data will generate confidence, and there is nothing that generates more confidence than complying with the laws that protect them.

The most relevant security challenges in cyberspace have to do with incidents, the digital trust of citizens and companies, cyber defense and national security. In 2015 alone, more than 50,000 cybersecurity incidents were managed that affected citizens, companies and strategic operators, 18% more than in the previous year. Which implied that this was not going down, but on the contrary, cyberattacks against both companies and citizens are increasing.

Why these changes to the laws in Cybersecurity are necessary

The exponential evolution reveals how cyberspace offers organized crime, terrorists and delinquency a privileged platform for action across national and regional borders. Therefore, a coordinated response between the Institutions or international cooperation of all the agents is an approach which must be given.

An illicit action could be from an online scam, the introduction of a computer virus in the computers of a certain company, the theft of accounts or passwords of users of a certain platform or even publishing lies about someone or impersonating their identity.

Which this gives greater security since cybersecurity covers many matters related to criminal and civil law, the protection of honor or privacy, among others, which would also apply in the real and physical world and any man or woman who Violate any of these laws will be sanctioned and sentenced.

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