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Last Updated: | Press Releases

News Release: DHS Awards $950K to Hawaii Small Business for Remote Sensor Data Protection

Funding to develop a sensor system capability that is resistant to spoofing or data manipulation. 

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Data Security Business Advisory

This Advisory describes the data-related risks American businesses face as a result of the actions of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and outlines steps that businesses can take to mitigate these risks. Businesses expose themselves and their customers to heightened risk when they share sensitive data with firms located in the PRC, or use equipment and software developed by firms with an ownership nexus in the PRC, as well as with firms that have PRC citizens in key leadership and security-focused roles (together, “PRC firms”). Due to PRC legal regimes and known PRC data collection practices, this is particularly true for data service providers and data infrastructure.

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Privacy Incident TTX

Today the Privacy Office hosted the third Annual DHS Privacy Incident Tabletop Exercise to test, validate, and refine the DHS breach response plan.