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You Passed the Test. But Can You Survive the Attack?

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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” – Søren Kierkegaard - Most security programs are designed to pass a test. Policies are documented. Controls are mapped. Tools are deployed. And for a...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

CISO’s: Take a Look at CSC’s CISO Outlook 2025 Report

Cybersecurity firm CSC recently issued its CISO Outlook 2025 Report, which predicts cybersecurity challenges CISOs will face in the next year. The report, from a survey of 300 CISOs and cybersecurity professionals globally,...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Proofpoint Survey Outlines Challenges for CISOs

Since I hang out with a lot of CISOs, and understand their pain points, I urge readers to send a “thank you” and “you are the best” message to their CISO. You can’t imagine the pressure and stress they are under to try to...more

White & Case LLP

Key Considerations for the 2024 Annual Reporting Season: Your Upcoming Form 20-F and other FPI-Specific Considerations

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This memorandum outlines key considerations from White & Case's Public Company Advisory Group for foreign private issuers ("FPIs") during the 2024 annual reporting season, divided into two sections: Form 20-F Housekeeping...more

Blank Rome LLP

Don’t Forget to Put SEC Cybersecurity Matters on Your Board Agenda This Fall!

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) earlier this year adopted rules requiring public companies to provide enhanced disclosure of material cybersecurity incidents, as well as cybersecurity risk management,...more

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SEC Brings Landmark Cybersecurity Disclosure Lawsuit Against Solarwinds and Its CISO

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On October 30, 2023, the SEC filed charges against SolarWinds Corp. and its chief information security officer (CISO), alleging: ..Failures to disclose known cybersecurity vulnerabilities affecting the company’s “crown...more

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Risk’s Digital Transformation – When IT & Third-Party Risk Reached Main Street

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It wasn’t long ago that the phrase digital transformation conjured the image of a large-enterprise corporate luminary delivering a keynote about the technological metamorphosis of their industry. Digitalization of legacy...more

StoneTurn

Shifting Cyber Landscape – Crisis Awareness as a Means to Prevent and Prepare

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Crises and uncertainty are inevitable forces in modern business, particularly in cyber and digital. General counsels and legal risk executives are well suited to lead preparedness and resiliency for future crises, uniting key...more

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Bringing Together the People, Processes, and Tools for Cyber Risk Management

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Last month I wrote a post for this blog about the Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposals for more disclosure of cybersecurity issues. We reviewed some of the governance disclosures that boards might need to make, as...more

K2 Integrity

Cyber Predictions 2022

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Where We Stand - This year kicks off against the backdrop of the security flaw found in Log4j, a system-logging code library widely used in applications and services across the Internet. In the aftermath of this crisis, a...more

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The Complicated Tango of Compliance & Cybersecurity

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A ransomware attack is no company’s idea of a good time, but I do sense one positive development emerging from the epidemic of attacks we’ve witnessed this year: Boards and senior management agree that they must move beyond a...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Insurance Industry Cybersecurity and COVID-19: The Importance of Risk Assessments

As companies seek to adapt to the worsening effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, security experts, as well as government agencies, including the FBI, are sounding the alarm on a drastic increase in the amount of cybersecurity...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

FBI And CISA Warn Of Coronavirus-Related Cyber Scams

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Keypoint: Individuals and businesses should take steps to prevent against becoming victims of the rapid rise in Coronavirus-related hacking scams. On March 20, 2020, the FBI issued an alert warning that cyber thieves are...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Important Tool in Your Box: Spam Filter

I have been hanging out a lot with Chief Information Officers (CIO) and Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) these days at speaking engagements and conferences, as October – National Cybersecurity month – is always...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

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - June 2018 #3

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Just days after the summit between the U.S. and North Korea, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Homeland Security issued a warning about a malicious malware, a Trojan malware variant known as...more

The Volkov Law Group

Cybersecurity Compliance for Financial Institutions

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The New York Department of Financial Services has adopted detailed cybersecurity regulations for financial institutions. (Here). The NYDFS has filled a vacuum created by the failure of the federal government to act in this...more

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The Convergence of Cybersecurity, Compliance, and Enterprise Risk Management

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When you survey business leaders on significant risks, they invariably cite cybersecurity as number one and anti-corruption as number two. For global businesses, this makes total sense. Cyber-crime damage is estimated to...more

Nossaman LLP

Settlement in Home Depot Class Action Provides Data Security Corporate Governance Framework for Companies

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The latest settlement in Home Depot’s data breach litigation provides a data security framework for corporate governance that may be used by other companies as a template. Based on claims arising from a massive data breach...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

DFS Cyber Regulation: Part II – An Interview with Bay Dynamics’ Steven Grossman

This is the second installment in our interview with Steven Grossman, VP Strategy & Enablement at Bay Dynamics, the cyber risk analytics company. Here, Steven discusses the importance of aligning an institution’s risk...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update: New York State Proposes Cybersecurity Regulation for Financial Institutions

New York state has proposed a new regulation — to go into effect January 1, 2017 — that would require banks, insurance companies and other financial services institutions regulated by the New York State Department of...more

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