{"id":30323,"date":"2026-02-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/bulletin\/de-reissues-data-security-bulletin-what-insurance-licensees-must-do-under-the-data-security-act-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:00:00","slug":"de-reissues-data-security-bulletin-what-insurance-licensees-must-do-under-the-data-security-act-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"bulletin","link":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/bulletin\/de-reissues-data-security-bulletin-what-insurance-licensees-must-do-under-the-data-security-act-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"DE Reissues Data Security Bulletin: What Insurance Licensees Must Do Under the Data Security Act in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>DE<\/strong>| The reissued<strong> Delaware<\/strong> Universally Applicable <a href=\"https:\/\/insurance.delaware.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/02\/Universally-Applicable-Bulletin-005-Reissued.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bulletin No. 5<\/a> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">reminds all insurance licensees doing business in Delaware of their obligations under the Delaware Insurance Data Security Act, <\/span>including maintaining an information security program, conducting risk assessments and incident investigations, promptly notifying the Department and impacted consumers of cybersecurity events, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>submitting an annual certification of compliance (with affidavit) by February 15 each year<\/strong><\/span>, using the Department\u2019s dedicated data security email address; it also clarifies who is a \u201clicensee,\u201d notes certain exemptions (<em>e.g., very small entities and HIPAA-covered entities with compliant security programs<\/em>), supersedes prior Bulletin No. 3 on data breaches, and emphasizes the Commissioner\u2019s authority to investigate and enforce compliance under <em>18 Del.C. Chapter 86.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/insurance.delaware.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/02\/Universally-Applicable-Bulletin-005-Reissued.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to see DE re-issued UA Bulletin No. 5<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21524,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"department":[252],"state":[274],"class_list":["post-30323","bulletin","type-bulletin","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","department-department-of-insurance","state-delaware"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bulletin\/30323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bulletin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bulletin"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bulletin\/30323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=30323"},{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=30323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}