Lege Trend. Cyber Security + Fantasy Sports Regulations.

Massachusettes, home of the Draft Kings, passed new fantasy sports regulations.

The editorial board reactions: Fantasy Sports Regulations have no cybersecurity

The cybersecurity response from daily fantasy sports: 

• fantasy sports regulations do require comapnies to have security measures
• comapnies are subejct to prosecution for not following the regulations
• the beauty of fantasy sports is that the playing information is public information

What cybersecurity experts say:

• fantasy sports has 3 levels of cybersecurity to be concerned about: its operating platform, the application used by the player, and the network.
• target for hackers could either be player information or impacting the game itself
• recommend policymakers “borrow from other established security benchmarks, such as NIST, CIS, and ISO”

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