Introduction -

Cybersecurity was a prominent factor in 2016 in all aspects of government, business and personal affairs. Russian and other foreign national hacking has the potential to spark a new form of cold (cyber)war with the United States. Breaches and cyber threats affecting tens of millions of individuals as well as companies are not only ubiquitous, they’re the new normal.

As Massachusetts Attorney General in the last decade, responding to one of the first massive consumer data breaches at TJX Corporation, we saw the beginning of the world we now live in. With the state’s then new statute and data privacy regulations, Massachusetts implemented robust means of protecting average consumers’ personal confidential information.