Episode 334 -- District Court Dismisses Bulk of SEC Claims Against Solarwinds
The Justice Insiders Podcast - Human Beings: Cybersecurity's Most Fragile Attack Surface
FBI Lockbit Takedown: What Does It Mean for Your Company?
Privacy Officer's Roadmap: Data Breach and Ransomware Defense – Speaking of Litigation Video Podcast
Decoding Cyber Threats: Protecting Critical Infrastructure in a Digital World — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
No Password Required: Chief Adversarial Officer at Secure Yeti, a DEF CON Groups Global Ambassador, and a World-Class Awkward Hugger
2023 DSIR Deeper Dive: How International and Domestic Regulatory Enforcement Spotlights the Information Governance Tensions Between ‘There’ and ‘Here’ and Between ‘Keep’ and ‘Delete’
Marketing Minute with NP Strategy (Video): How to Respond to a Cyber Security Breach
Life With GDPR – Lessons Learned from The Singtel Opus Data Breach
No Password Required: Founder and Commissioner of the US Cyber Games, CEO of the Cyber Marketing Firm Katzcy, and Someone Who Values Perseverance Over Perfection
2023 DSIR Deeper Dive: State Privacy and Data Collection
Digital Planning Podcast Episode: When Cyber Attacks Hit Home
No Password Required: Threat Intelligence Analyst at Recorded Future, the Ransomware Sommelier, and a Guy With a Mildly Exciting Expense Account
Compliance & Disaster Preparedness
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 157: Sarah Glover, Maynard Nexsen Cybersecurity Attorney
Overview of Cybersecurity in Government Contracts
Episode 282 -- CISO and CCOs -- The Evolving Partnership
No Password Required: Threat Researcher at Cisco Talos and a Veteran of the Highest-Profile Cyber Incidents Who Roasts His Own Coffee Beans
Innovation in Compliance - Cybersecurity Today and Tomorrow with Patrick Hynds
Innovation in Compliance - The Role of Backup Systems in Cybersecurity Defense with Curtis Preston
Le 4 juillet 2024, la Cour d’appel de la Colombie-Britannique (la « CACB ») a rendu deux jugements d’appel en matière d’actions collectives dans des contextes de fuite de données. Ce faisant, la CACB a clarifié la portée...more
In a pair of decisions released on July 5, 2024, the B.C. Court of Appeal found that an alleged reckless failure to safeguard personal information may be sufficient to make out Privacy Act claims of "wilful violation" of...more
2022 continued to be positive for institutional clients involved in privacy breach class actions, with the Ontario Court of Appeal refusing to expand the tort of intrusion upon seclusion to impose liability on institutions...more
AML compliance for reporting entities has never been of greater critical importance than it is today. With the growing sophistication of criminals and the methods and technologies that they employed, combined with the...more
Theft of personal information does not by itself entitle the victim to damages in Canada; proof of loss or harm is required, the Alberta Court of Appeal held recently in Setoguchi v Uber BV. This, and other recent decisions,...more
Les cyberattaques se sont multipliées au cours des dernières années et leur puissance destructrice a augmenté considérablement. Comme le nombre de cyberincidents visant des organisations de toutes tailles continue de...more
In a trilogy of rulings released on November 25, 2022, the Ontario Court of Appeal (“Court”) has ruled that the tort of intrusion upon seclusion cannot extend to companies that collect and store personal information and fall...more
On November 25, 2022, in Owsianik v. Equifax Canada Co., 2022 ONCA 813 (Owsianik), the Ontario Court of Appeal (Court) held that intrusion upon seclusion is not a viable cause of action against a defendant who has been the...more
Le métavers est souvent décrit comme l’Internet de demain. Bien que son développement n’en soit qu’à un stade précoce, des sociétés émergentes et d’autres bien établies investissent des millions de dollars dans la mise au...more
Le commissaire à l’information et à la protection de la vie privée de l’Ontario (le « CIPVP »), soit l’organisme de réglementation de la protection de la vie privée dans le secteur public et le domaine de la santé de...more
With the first wave of amendments to Québec’s An Act Respecting the Protection of Personal Information in the Private Sector (“PPIPS”) having taken effect just over a month ago, we thought we would share some misconceptions...more
The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC), Ontario’s public sector and health privacy regulator, recently released a technology factsheet titled, “How to Protect Against Ransomware.” This factsheet is intended...more
Le 18 août 2022, l’Autorité ontarienne de réglementation des services financiers (l’« ARSF ») – l’organisme de réglementation du secteur des services financiers de l’Ontario – a adopté la directive de cybersécurité du Conseil...more
La cybersécurité est l’un des enjeux de premier plan auxquels sont confrontées les entreprises et les organisations au Canada à l’heure actuelle. Or, bon nombre d’entre elles ne sont toujours pas dotées d’un plan...more
On August 18, 2022, the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRA) – Ontario’s financial sector regulator – adopted the Mortgage Broker Regulators' Council of Canada's Cybersecurity Guidance (Guidance). The...more
A little over nine months after it passed An Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information (“Bill 64”) overhauling, among other legislation, the province’s public and private sector...more
Cybersecurity incidents are becoming increasingly common and disruptive. In the Blakes 2022 Cyber Trends Study, we identified that ransomware attacks continue to be highly prevalent, representing over half of the observed...more
The Canadian Institute’s 11th Annual Forum on U.S. Export & Re-Export Compliance for Canadian Operations will take place in Toronto on January 25–27! IN-PERSON and LIVESTREAM options available. Over the last decade, this...more
OSFI, the Canadian Federal Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, on August 13, 2021, issued new guidance on Technology and Cyber Security Incident Reporting, replacing prior guidance of March 2019....more
Le 9 juin 2021, dans l’affaire Owsianik v. Equifax Canada Co., 2021 ONSC 4112 (l’« affaire Equifax »), la majorité des juges de la Cour divisionnaire de l’Ontario a rejeté le délit d’intrusion dans l’intimité comme question...more
On June 9, 2021, in Owsianik v Equifax Canada Co (Equifax), 2021 ONSC 4112, a majority of the Divisional Court overturned the certification of intrusion upon seclusion as a common issue in a class proceeding involving a...more
Insurer AXA, among Europe's top five insurers, recently announced that it was suspending insurance coverage in France for ransomware extortion payments. AXA said it made this decision in response to concerns raised by French...more
Au cours des dernières semaines, des cyberattaquants ont cherché à exploiter des vulnérabilités que Microsoft a détectées dans ses serveurs Exchange. Ces attaques ont initialement été menées par un groupe de piratage...more
The Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta, in Setoguchi v Uber B.V., 2021 ABQB 18, recently dismissed an application for certification of a proposed class action resulting from a data breach because there was no evidence of harm...more
In Washington: In a statement on Monday, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Stephen Hahn and Peter Marks, director of the agency’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, responded that it was...more