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Don't Be the Weakest Link – Your Team's Crucial Role in Cybersecurity

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Cybersecurity success depends on more than just technology. As we’ve seen in part one and part two of this series on cybersecurity risk, the costs of a cyber attack are high – and bad actors always look for the easiest entry...more

Adams and Reese LLP

[Webinar] Ransomware Attacks: Could the Board of Directors be Liable? - June 17th, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm ET

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Ransomware attacks are on the rise and the trend is not going to change anytime soon. It’s no longer a question of ‘if’ your company will be targeted, but “when” will it happen. Now is the time for organizations to get...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

C-Suites: Cybercrime Damages Expected to Reach $6 Trillion by 2021

According to Cybersecurity Ventures, cybercrime is the fastest growing crime in the U.S., with damages expected to reach $6 trillion globally by 2021. Therefore, it is axiomatic that C-Suites continue to address the risk...more

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FTC Touts Refined Approach to Data Security Enforcement

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Synopsis: On January 6, 2020, Andrew Smith, director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, outlined in a blog post the agency’s new approach to data security orders. The agency implemented this...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Privacy Perils: Cyber Criminals Concentrate on C-Suites

Verizon released its 2019 Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR) on May 8th. The widely read annual report is considered a primary source for data breach trends, statistics and forecasts. This year’s report is based on data...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

No Surprise that 76% of C-level Executives think the CISO is Critical!

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Darkreading.com reported that the “…CISO is a "must have" position” in the results of a survey of “400 C-suite executives from enterprises across the UK and USA” and of course that “C-level executives say that a cyber...more

Burns & Levinson LLP

The Likelihood of Company Executives Being Fired Post-Data Breach – It Isn’t Pretty

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In April 2018, Verizon released the 11th edition of its Data Breach Investigations Report. As usual, the Verizon DBIR contained interesting data points culled from more than 53,000 incidents and 2,216 confirmed data breaches....more

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Insider Trading and Equifax

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We regularly have conversations with our clients about whether particular non-public information is "material," who at the company knows about such information and whether certain individuals should be allowed to engage in...more

Alston & Bird

SEC Provides Additional Information On Cybersecurity Examinations

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On September 15, 2015, the Security and Exchange Commission’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) issued a Risk Alert to provide additional information on the areas of focus for its second round of...more

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New survey shows continued lack of executive confidence in cybersecurity and increases in data loss

A new survey released by Raytheon and websense, called “Study-Why Executives Lack Security Posture Confidence While Knowing that the Metrics They Use to Gauge it are Ineffective” “reveals that confidence in [executives’]...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

NIST Guide Highlights Cybersecurity Considerations for Utilities and Manufacturing Companies

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In 2013 alone, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) responded to more than 256 cyber-incident reports—more than half of them in the energy...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

2015 US State of Cybercrime Survey released

The 2015 US State of Cybercrime survey has been released and is worth a read. The Survey, co-sponsored by PwC, CSO, the CERT Division of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and the United States...more

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Spoofing Whales: How Companies Can Protect Their CEOs and CFOs from the "Business Email Compromise”

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Cyber scammers continually innovate new means to extract valuable information from unsuspecting victims. And a new form of cyber fraud is exploiting the close relationship between CEOs and CFOs. Identifying this threat — and...more

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FTC announces data security guidance for businesses

We (and others) often comment on the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) increased enforcement activity of data security issues, particularly with the Wyndham and LabMD cases, and the fact that it is enforcing data security...more

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