For laws and regulations to be effective, a healthy amount of paranoia and lack of trust needs to be had when designing them. The writer of those laws and regulations must be doing so with the assumption that persons, groups, and businesses will stretch to the limit of what they are legally allowed to do and be vigilant for exploits.

Data leaks, intelligification, and cyberattacks have the potential to cause devastating damage upon individuals, states, and entire countries. As was demonstrated with the shutdown of the oil piepine in 2021, a relatively small group with a good understanding of technology can devastate an economy. Businesses with unscrupulous and profit-driven motives can inflict terrible invasions of privacy and human rights violations, and have demonstrated lack of caution or concern for doing so. it has been proven that these entities cannot be trusted to act in good faith and will perform to the limit of what the letter of the law permits.

Therefor, regulation for networks and cybersecurity should have the same amount of caution and paranoia instilled as the regulations for nuclear reactors. Writers of regulation must do so with the assumption that abuses will be attempted. Just as a firewall is made with the assumption that cybercriminals will attempt to probe and test it.

These regulations must be uniform across the country. In a network, any weakness in a single area becomes a vulnerability for the whole entity. The same principle applies to laws and regulations, and to states. If any state’s legislature is weak to exploitation, then the entire country is. While in general, problems ought to be solved by the lowest-level authority possible, in this case that authority is the highest tier of the Federal Government.

A uniform code of network and cyber regulations that apply to the entirety of the country and its foreign interests. Written:

1. By a team of professionals with in-depth understanding of matters both cyber and legal.

2. With paranoia and understanding that attempts at abuse will be made.

3. Wholly uncorrupted by corporate or individual interests.

4. As a living document that can evolve with the progression of technology.

If any of the above is not true, then the regulations will have a weakspot and therefor exploitation will be inevitable.