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Cybercriminals Are Moving into the Cloud and Making Your Active Directory Their New Home

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Financially motivated cybercriminals are increasingly targeting Cloud environments in their ransomware and/or extortion attacks. The attack activity of two (2) threat groups in particular – Octo Tempest (AKA Scattered Spider)...more

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Ransomware Costs Businesses Record-High $1 Billion in 2023: Your 5-Step Plan to Prevent Attacks in 2024

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2023 was the most devastating year yet for ransomware attacks, with businesses forking over $1 billion in ransom payments for the first time ever – and 2024 is expected to be even worse. Beyond the payments, the average cost...more

K2 Integrity

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Doubling Your Account Security With Multi-Factor Authentication

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This article is the second in a series of articles about Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Throughout October, K2 Integrity will be providing tips and solutions to organizations to commemorate the 20-year anniversary of the...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

FTC Actions Hold Data Privacy Lessons For 2023

The Federal Trade Commission will have its eye on privacy and data security enforcement in 2023. In August, the agency announced that it is exploring ways to crack down on lax data security practices. In the announcement,...more

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9 Reasons Why Businesses are Switching to the Cloud (as told by a business consultant)

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...Many businesses are switching to the cloud for their day-to-day operations, and you should too. Today’s business climate keeps changing. You should be able to access data on your phone, tablet, or computer, whether in the...more

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Fostering Safe Cloud Integration into Business Operations with these Security Basics

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The cloud intersects with personal and professional worlds for many people. Want to share photos with family from a recent trip? Upload them to a shared cloud drive and text out the link for access. Need to have several hands...more

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Episode 7: Top three things that will mitigate the most common types of cloud breaches (with John Grange)

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Jerich Beason is joined by John Grange, who the co-founder and chief technology officer at OpsCompass which is a SaaS product that provides continuous, cloud-native governance and security in Azure, AWS, GCP, and Microsoft...more

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Ramping Up Cloud Usage for Government Agencies

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As the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing enforced remote work only accelerated the move to the cloud for many organizations, it should come as no surprise that the use of cloud-based solutions continues to be on the...more

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Why best-of-breed cloud apps are the future and what you can do to prepare

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The slow adoption of remote-working culture was thrown out the window in 2020. Due to the mass work-from-home wave, the identification and adoption of cloud-based apps happened almost immediately. By June 2020, 92% of...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

FTC Announces Settlement With Zoom Resolving Data Security Concerns

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On November 9, 2020, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced a proposed settlement with Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (“Zoom”), a video conferencing provider, to resolve claims that Zoom deceived users about the...more

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How to Maintain CCPA Compliance in the Cloud

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As more organizations find themselves under scrutiny for the way they collect and use consumer data, maintaining CCPA compliance has never been more important. CCPA has been introduced to give control back to consumers,...more

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Data Security for Owners and Contractors: Protect Construction Investments From Catastrophic Loss

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Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, the construction industry was "going global" using available technology and cloud-based data storage and file sharing on all phases of projects. For example, a project owner might hire a...more

BakerHostetler

Life Sciences: Connected Medical Devices in the Cloud During COVID-19

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The Pandemic has fast-tracked the use of telehealth services. Hussein Akhavannik discusses how medical device companies are looking to add to or expand remote monitoring capabilities. However, some capabilities raise legal...more

Baker Donelson

Sitting with the C-Suite: eDiscovery Priorities – Thoughts on the Next Five Years

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Marc Zamsky has been involved in the eDiscovery provider community since 1996. He joined Compliance in May 2013 as the Chief Operating Officer. In that role, Marc expanded the eDiscovery solutions offered by Compliance by,...more

Hogan Lovells

New PDPC guidelines on cloud services, data intermediaries, and access requests

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As the issues surrounding data protection become increasingly complex, in recent years the advisory guidelines (Guidelines) issued by the Personal Data Protection Commission of Singapore (PDPC) have been invaluable in guiding...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - May 2019

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine expanded data breach notification laws in New Jersey and Washington state, as well as the SEC's risk alert regarding cloud-based storage solutions. We...more

Kilpatrick

Cloud Storage and Use of Vendors for Records Management Flagged by OCIE in Alert

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Regulations regarding privacy, cybersecurity and the use of technology seem to be in constant flux. Compliance consultants and vendors do their best to stay on top of them, but ultimately neither are regulated by the SEC,...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

SEC OCIE Issues Guidance on Advisors’ and Broker-Dealers’ Cloud-Based and Other Network Storage of Customer Data

• On May 23, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) issued a Risk Alert describing its observations in past examinations of weaknesses and best practices...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Issues Risk Alert Regarding Safeguarding Customer Records and Information Stored on...

On May 23, 2019, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”)’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) issued a Risk Alert entitled “Safeguarding Customer Records and Information in Network...more

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Cloud Computing

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Most companies today use some form of cloud computing whether through software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, or infrastructure-as-a-service. Cloud computing’s cost-effective scalability can offer significant advantages...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Failure to Signal: Uber Forced to Accept Expanded Settlement after Concealing Security Breach from FTC

Uber Technologies, Inc. (“Uber”) has agreed to an expansion of its initial August 2017 proposed consent agreement with the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), in light of revelations of an additional security breach in October...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

Uber Goes 0-2 in Data Breach Notifications

In August, 2017, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) proposed a settlement agreement with Uber stemming from its investigation of a 2014 data breach due to Uber’s “unreasonable security practices”. The lengthy investigation...more

Alston & Bird

The Digital Download - Alston & Bird’s Privacy & Data Security Newsletter - March 2018

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Features - Updates on the EU - Privacy & Data Security Team Launches GDPR Tracker Website. The Alston & Bird Privacy & Data Security Team recently launched the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Tracker website,...more

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HHS Publishes New Guidance on HIPAA and Cloud Computing

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued a new guidance regarding HIPAA compliance and the use of cloud computing solutions. The guidance is intended to assist covered entities...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

OCR Releases HIPAA Guidance on Cloud Computing

On October 6, 2016, the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released HIPAA guidance on cloud computing (Guidance). The Guidance is intended to help covered entities and business associates...more

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