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Combatting Supply Chain Cyber Threats: Safeguarding Data and Protecting Digital Supply Chains

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As supply chains have become more digitized and interconnected, they have also become more vulnerable to a range of cyber threats. These threats not only pose risks to the direct operations of companies but also to the...more

Guidepost Solutions LLC

Defending Your Law Firm Against Cyber Threats

In an increasingly digitized world, law firms are prime targets for sophisticated cyber threats that can result in substantial financial losses and reputational damage. Recently, a prominent law firm, esteemed for its...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Take these steps to safeguard against third-party cyber threats

The ever-increasing privacy and security risks via third-party vendors and service providers were apparent in 2023 with news of large organizations such as MOVEit, Okta and AT&T being affected. Research has shown that 98...more

Balch & Bingham LLP

Joint Cybersecurity Advisory (“CSA”) Issued Regarding IRGC-Affiliated Cyber Threats to Multiple Sectors, including U.S. Water and...

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On December 1, 2023, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (“CISA”), National Security Agency (“NSA”), Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”), and the Israel National...more

BakerHostetler

[Podcast] 2022 DSIR Report Deeper Dive: Vendor Incidents

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The Data Security Incident Response Report features insights and metrics from 1,270+ incidents that members of the firm’s DADM Practice Group helped clients manage in 2021. This episode takes us deeper into vendor...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Protecting Data – Considerations for Drafting Security Schedules

With the exponential growth of cyber threats, cloud computing and remote working, contract provisions regarding data security requirements have also expanded in size and frequency. It has become common practice to prepare...more

Goodwin

FDIC Seeks Comment on Supervisory Approach to Examinations During Pandemic

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In This Issue. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is seeking information and comment regarding the FDIC’s supervisory approach to examinations during the pandemic; the FDIC’s tech lab, FIDTECH, announced a “tech...more

McDermott Will & Emery

[Webinar] Protecting Your Employee Benefits Plan from Cybersecurity Threats | What Does the US Department of Labor’s Guidance Mean...

McDermott Will & Emery invites you to a webinar for an in-depth discussion on the US Department of Labor’s initial cybersecurity guidance for retirement plans under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and what...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

[Webinar] Navigating Privacy Rules in a Virtual World - June 17th, 10:00 am - 11:00 am PT

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The transformation to a work from home/work from anywhere model has become the new normal and even after the pandemic ends, many expect that model to continue. This accelerated transition has forced companies to embrace...more

BakerHostetler

Responding to Supply-Chain Risk—It's Not Just About Vendor Management

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Organizations around the globe began 2021 grappling with two significant supply-chain attacks. First, the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service, planted malicious code in Orion, SolarWinds’ flagship network management...more

NAVEX

4 Things to Know About Updated NIST 800-53 Standards

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[author: Matt Kelly] In September 2020 the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) unveiled the fifth version of its cybersecurity standard formally known as SP 800-53, “Security and Privacy Controls for...more

Carlton Fields

Ledgers and Law: Real-World Planning for Cyber Attacks

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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way millions of people work. Remote workers are especially vulnerable to cyber threats such as ransomware and business email compromise. Joe Swanson, chair of Carlton Fields’...more

Bracewell LLP

SEC Examiners Release Cyber Observations: What You Need To Know

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On January 27, 2020, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) announced its most recent Cybersecurity and Resiliency Observations. This report highlights specific practices that have been, and can be...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

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the...

Privacy and Data Security Strategies for Start-Up Companies

Start-up companies know that, when potential investors kick the tires, they will look carefully at the company’s business model and IP portfolio. These days, investors are also likely to look at whether the company is in...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Grid Electrification: Addressing Cybersecurity Threats and Mitigating Risk in the Renewable Energy Era - ABA Forum

Technology and the critical infrastructure that support our personal pursuits and business operations are ripe targets for cyberattacks. In particular, the electrical grid that transmits electricity from its point of...more

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Strategies for Protecting Against Vendor Payment Fraud

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Cybercrime is an ever-increasing threat from which manufacturers are not immune. Although reliable statistics are not available, one particular type of scheme that seems to be on the rise is vendor payment fraud. In cases of...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Response Options For Businesses With Sensitive Data Breaches

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Your heart raced when the caller on the phone identified himself as an FBI agent. But the conversation was matter-of-fact. About 2,500 sets of credit card information from your clients had been posted for sale on a...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Healthcare Cyber: House Inquiry Targets Medical Software

In its latest inquiry into cybersecurity risks in the healthcare sector, the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week requested a “formal briefing” from medical transcription vendor Nuance Communications, Inc. concerning...more

Alston & Bird

The Digital Download - Privacy & Data Security Monthly Newsletter - January 2016

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Senior Counsel Peter Swire to Debate European Privacy Activist Max Schrems. The debate, set to take place on January 26 in Brussels, will highlight key differences between certain European and U.S. attitudes towards U.S....more

Perkins Coie

Could a Vendor’s Lax Info Security Ruin Your Holiday Sales? Seven Preventative Steps for Retailers

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Many of the largest retailer data security breaches have been caused or enabled by the acts or omissions of retailers’ vendors, such as the widely publicized incident at Target Corporation. Several such breaches occurred...more

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SEC Cybersecurity Update

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Results from the SEC’s First Round of Cybersecurity Examinations - On February 3, 2015, the OCIE published a risk alert summarizing its findings from its examinations of over 100 registered investment advisers and...more

Morgan Lewis

Proactive Approach To Cybersecurity: Recent SEC guidance and enforcement actions suggest that reactive firms may be in the SEC’s...

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In an environment where even the largest and most powerful corporations have fallen victim to data breaches, it can be challenging to fathom how to protect against the sophisticated and ever-evolving threat of cyber attacks....more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

SEC Ramps up Cybersecurity Scrutiny With Examination Priorities and an Enforcement Action

Why it matters - Signaling that it will continue to increase its scrutiny of firms' cybersecurity readiness, the Office of Compliance, Inspections and Examinations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a...more

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