Ken Rashbaum recently addressed data management regimes in the US, for the benefit of the European businesses, and data protection in Europe (GDPR) with regard to the potential for  international expansion of US business into central and eastern Europe at the “Connecting Bridges and Borders: Company Collaboration in Today’s Competitive Market” Conference held in Budapest, Hungary on October 16th. Ken spoke on US state data protection laws and trends and the need for non-US companies to obtain advisors who can guide them through the regulatory thicket of 52 separate jurisdictions that have very different cybersecurity compliance regulations. Concurrently, Ken has been asked to assist in drafting a privacy and cybersecurity bill partly based on his testimony before the New Jersey Assembly Homeland Security and State Preparedness Committee on Cybersecurity and Protection Best Practices in May, 2018. The final bill may serve as a model for states considering privacy and cybersecurity legislation, as similar laws in California, Colorado, Vermont, Illinois and regulations in New York have moved New Jersey legislators to take up data protection for New Jersey residents.