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Jackson Lewis P.C.

Dealing With the Growing Threat of Cyberattacks in Manufacturing Sector: What Employers Need to Know

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For the second year in a row, the manufacturing industry has fallen victim to more cyberattacks than any other major business sector. Indeed, according to IBM Security’s X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, nearly 25 percent...more

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TIAA and National Student Clearinghouse Report Data Breach Affecting Students and Faculty of Trinity College

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On June 30, 2023, Trinity College posted a notice on its website describing two third-party data breaches that may impact confidential information belonging to Trinity College students, faculty and staff members. Evidently,...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

Mitigating a Company’s Liability When a Data Breach Is Suffered by a Vendor or Service Provider

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Data breaches by large companies have been in the news for some time. Over the last several years several companies, including Marriott, Yahoo and Volkswagon, have been victimized by hackers who have broken into a company’s...more

Clark Hill PLC

Eight Data-Related Provisions That Might be Missing from Your Professional Services Agreement

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Modern business requires the engagement of professional services providers, such as IT services, marketing, software, data hosting, or other needed services. Far too often, though, the agreements governing these relationships...more

Baker Donelson

Data Privacy Day: Top Considerations for 2021

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Happy Data Privacy Day! Since 2007, privacy professionals from across the globe have gathered together on January 28 to raise awareness about data privacy and security best practices and issues. ...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Uber Criminal Complaint Raises the Stakes for Breach Response

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On August 20, 2020, a criminal complaint was filed charging Joseph Sullivan, Uber’s former chief security officer, with obstruction of justice and misprision of a felony in connection with an alleged attempted cover-up of a...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

Managing Third-Party Vendor Regulatory Compliance

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Data breaches are a hot topic and will undoubtedly get even hotter. Cybersecurity for your own enterprise isn’t enough — you must evaluate your vendors and determine if they’re prepared to resist cyberattacks.  ...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

COVID-19 Security Alert: 10 Reminders for Employees Working Remotely

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The security and confidentiality of a company’s data is paramount. As businesses grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic and the need for employees to work remotely, it is important to remain focused on ensuring the security and...more

Harris Beach PLLC

Can Hackers be Ethical, not Evil?

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We are increasingly seeing situations in which a client’s information systems are breached by an ethical hacker. Typically, they take a screen shot or two of data to prove their accomplishment, carefully redact any...more

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The Lawyer's Duty When Client Confidential Information is Hacked From the Law Firm

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As attorneys, our livelihood is often heavily dependent upon the keeping of secrets. But in this complex electronic-data driven environment we work in, where physical security via locked doors and piercing alarms may no...more

Hogan Lovells

Health Company Fined by UK’s Information Commissioner Office

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Last week, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published a monetary penalty notice which fined a private healthcare company, HCA International, £200,000 for its failure to keep sensitive data secure....more

NAVEX

Panama Papers Scandal Puts Third Party Risk in Focus

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The Panama Papers scandal should serve as a wake-up call for every organization—and it should prompt compliance officers to closely scrutinize the third party vendors they do business with. ...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #30 – Protect yourself and your co-workers: please don’t sell your company credentials

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I am on a lot of privacy and security list-serves and keep up with surveys relating to data privacy and security. I was most distressed this week to download SailPoint’s 2016 Market Pulse Survey. Not that it isn’t well...more

Carlton Fields

A Different Kind of Data Breach—Loss or Disclosure of Company Information by Employee Theft

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Data breaches are all over the news, but those stories most often cover high-profile cybersecurity breaches that result from the malicious efforts of hackers or other outsiders. Just as insidious, and more likely to occur,...more

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