{"id":2155,"date":"2025-06-25T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2025-06-30T15:40:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T19:40:36","slug":"texas-enacts-cybersecurity-liability-protection-for-small-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/2025\/06\/25\/texas-enacts-cybersecurity-liability-protection-for-small-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Enacts Cybersecurity Liability Protection for Small Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"481\" src=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Cyber-Security-Resized.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2156\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Cyber-Security-Resized.png 800w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Cyber-Security-Resized-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Cyber-Security-Resized-768x462.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The new Texas statute erects a shield from liability to protect certain businesses (those under 250 employees) from exemplary damages in a tort action resulting from a data breach. That shield applies only if the business demonstrates that at the time of the breach the entity implemented and maintained a cybersecurity program that meets certain requirements, which may include compliance with a recognized framework (e.g., NIST, ISO\/IEC 27001). This is not immunity from all liability\u2014it applies only to punitive damages\u2014but it can be a significant limitation on financial exposure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This law takes effect September 1, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Jackson Lewis:<\/em><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.workplaceprivacyreport.com\/2025\/06\/articles\/written-information-security-program\/texas-enacts-liability-shield-from-punitive-damages-for-certain-small-businesses-that-adopt-cybersecurity-programs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Texas Enacts Liability Shield From Punitive Damages for Certain Small Businesses That Adopt Cybersecurity Programs<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Texas statute erects a shield from liability to protect certain businesses (those under 250 employees) from exemplary damages in a tort action resulting from a data breach. That shield applies only if the business demonstrates that at the time of the breach the entity implemented and maintained a cybersecurity program that meets certain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1003,"featured_media":2156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[182,185,184,183],"class_list":["post-2155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal","tag-cybersecurity","tag-protection","tag-small-businesses","tag-texas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2158,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions\/2158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}