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Business resiliency needs to take centerstage if you want to keep pace with cyber threats and supply chain disruptions

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2024 was a year of numerous and notable cybersecurity failures – although, to be fair, most years are now marred by numerous and notable cybersecurity failures. That’s no longer anything special. What makes 2024 interesting...more

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Rising Cyber Threats in Europe’s Financial Sector: An ENISA Overview

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Between January 2023 and June 2024, cyber threats targeting Europe’s financial sector escalated, posing risks to banks, financial service providers, and regulatory bodies. According to the ENISA Threat Landscape: Finance...more

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Joint Cybersecurity Advisory Released on Ghost (Cring) Ransomware

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The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center released an advisory on February 19, 2025, providing information on Ghost...more

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Cybersecurity Executive Order—Key Implications for the Manufacturing Industry

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On January 16, 2025, President Joe Biden issued the “Executive Order on Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” a comprehensive directive designed to address the growing complexity and...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

With Nod to OCR, Indiana Inks $350K Deal With Dental Firm Following Hack

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Recent federal enforcement actions have brought home the lesson that there’s really no acceptable reason for denying a patient timely access to medical records. Last year, for example, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR)...more

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Slew of OCR activity underscores agency’s focus on security and AI

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Recent enforcement actions, audit activity, proposed rulemakings, and guidance issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) highlight the agency’s focus on health data...more

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FAQs for Schools and Persons Affected By the PowerSchool Data Breach

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A massive data breach hit one of the country’s largest education software providers. According to EducationWeek, PowerSchool provides school software products to more than 16,000 customers, largely K-12 schools, that serve 50...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] 2nd National Conference on Cybersecurity Law & Compliance - January 29th - 30th, Arlington, VA

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Cyberattacks are affecting every company and sector. Meanwhile, the regulatory landscape is intensifying as the SEC continues to enforce the cyber-risk management disclosure rules. Every day presents a new compliance and...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

A Year in Privacy and Security: Privacy Violations, Large-Scale Data Breaches, and Big Fines and Settlements

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2024 was a year chock-full of data breaches and privacy violations. Many new data privacy and cybersecurity regulations were introduced (and became effective), and regulators sent a strong message to businesses that privacy...more

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SEC Cybersecurity Incident Disclosure Report

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Paul Hastings released its SEC Cyber Incident Disclosure Report today, providing a unique look at how public companies have responded to new incident disclosure requirements. The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) approved...more

Lippes Mathias LLP

Hospital Administrators – Is Your Hospital Cyber-Secure?

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On October 2, 2024, New York adopted new regulations requiring general hospitals to implement heightened cybersecurity safeguards. General hospitals, as defined in Article 28 of the NY Public Health Law, generally must begin...more

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Privacy Briefs: November 2024

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Change Healthcare Inc. has amended its initial breach report to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to state that 100 million individuals were impacted by its mammoth ransomware attack and breach. However, as of Oct. 24,...more

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HIPAA Gets a Potential Counterpart in HISAA

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Americans hear about cybersecurity incidents on a frequent basis. As the adage goes, it is not a matter of “if” a breach or security hack occurs; it is a matter of “when.”...more

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Ep. 38 – Halloween Special: Compliance Nightmares

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In healthcare, compliance issues can quickly escalate into compliance nightmares, with serious implications for patient safety, legal liability, and an organization’s reputation. Among the most common compliance nightmares...more

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Safeguarding Health Information: Takeaways from HHS and NIST 2024 HIPAA Security Conference

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President Ronald Reagan famously quipped, "I think you all know that I've always felt that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help."1 At an Oct. 23-24, 2024,...more

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OCR Provides Guidance to the Healthcare Industry to Combat Ransomware Attacks

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In the spirit of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) released a new video on October 17, 2024, to promote awareness on ransomware trends in the healthcare industry and how HIPAA subject...more

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Navigating the Fallout: Essential Insights for Healthcare Companies in Light of the Change Healthcare Cyber Breach

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The cyber breach at Change Healthcare in 2024 stands out as one of the most significant cyber-attacks in recent memory. Its repercussions extend far beyond immediate industry disruptions, resonating deeply in regulatory...more

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Privacy Briefs: September 2024

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The HHS Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation (WPS) are notifying 946,801 people whose protected health information or other personally identifiable information...more

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SEC Settlement: Cybersecurity Internal Controls

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On June 18, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced a $2.1 million civil penalty settlement of charges against R.R. Donnelley & Sons (“RRD”), a global provider of business communications services and...more

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SEC Issues Updated Guidance on Cybersecurity Incident Disclosure Under Item 1.05 of Form 8-K

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On June 24, 2024, the SEC issued five new Compliance & Disclosure Interpretations (C&DIs) relating to the materiality assessment and disclosure requirements of material cybersecurity incidents under Item 1.05 of Form 8-K....more

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Newly Proposed Rule Expanding Cyber Incident Reporting to Affect Financial Services Companies

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Recently, the US Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) which, if adopted, would require “covered entities” of critical...more

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Cyber Update: SEC Issues New Guidance on Cybersecurity Incident Disclosure

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On June 24, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance (Corp Fin) added to its Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (C&DI) related to disclosure of Material Cybersecurity...more

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New Cyber Regulations Define Battle Lines in Corporate and Infrastructure Security

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Amidst an ever-evolving cyber threat landscape, a recent slew of regulatory updates and cybersecurity standards are defining a new battlefront for securing critical infrastructure and corporate data across varying sectors....more

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8 Questions To Ask Before Final CISA Breach Reporting Rule

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On April 4, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency published a notice of proposed rulemaking setting out mandatory reporting requirements for covered entities that experience cybersecurity incidents or make...more

Baker Donelson

Top Privacy and Cybersecurity Issues to Track In 2024

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In recognition of International Privacy Day on January 28, we wanted to share some insights on the top privacy and cybersecurity issues for the new year. Data privacy and cybersecurity will continue to be one of the most...more

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