What should a live-service studio send for a cyber quote?

Map account and payment data, chat or user-content features, cloud hosting, anti-cheat, support vendors, and the way players access the service.[3][1]

Include incident response steps, outage history if relevant to the application, vendor contracts, data retention, and the service commitments made to players or publishers. FTC child-privacy guidance is a design and audience source, not proof of cyber coverage.[1]

Ask which events trigger response services, restoration, liability, and interruption protection, and how dependent vendor outages are treated in the actual forms.[3]

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Sources and Further Reading

  1. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule: A Six-Step Compliance Plan for Your Business — Federal Trade Commission. Step 1 and factors for determining whether a site/service is directed to children, lines 50 onward

    FTC guidance on factors used to assess whether an online service is directed to children.

  2. DMCA Designated Agent Directory — U.S. Copyright Office. Overview, lines 30–35

    DMCA Designated Agent Directory; use for the scoped operational question described in the cited guidance.

  3. Commercial Insurance Guide — California Department of Insurance. Commercial Insurance Guide, revised June 14, 2024: purchasing coverage, commercial property, inland marine, boiler and machinery, commercial general liability, and workers compensation.
  4. Employer information — California Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Workers’ Compensation. Opening section, employer obligation and out-of-state employer paragraph

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