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Texas Enacts Liability Shield From Punitive Damages for Certain Small Businesses That Adopt Cybersecurity Programs

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On June 20, 2025, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed SB 2610 into law, joining a growing number of states that aim to incentivize sound cybersecurity practices through legislative safe harbors. Modeled on laws in states like...more

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Cybersecurity in Business Ownership: What Your Start-Up Should Know

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Cybersecurity is no longer a luxury; it’s a necessity. For start-ups and established businesses alike, protecting sensitive information and maintaining customer trust relies heavily on strong cybersecurity measures. With...more

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Three Cybersecurity Mistakes Small Businesses Make: A Data Privacy Attorney's Perspective

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In today's digital landscape, where data and technology are integral to business, companies of all sizes are prime targets for cyberattacks. As privacy and data security attorneys, we see the severe impact of inadequate...more

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Best Practices for Reducing the Cost of a Cyber Incident for Small to Mid-Sized Businesses

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Originally published in American Business Magazine - May 2024. Many small- and mid-sized business owners believe that they are not prime targets for a cyber breach and that threat actors only go after large companies. This...more

PilieroMazza PLLC

Protecting Our Nation’s Data, Part 3: Are Goods or Services Subject to FASCSA Orders?

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Substantive cybersecurity amendments to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) are underway, significantly altering the duties and obligations of federal government contractors both prior to award and during contract...more

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Protecting Our Nation’s Data, Part 2: Implementing Cyber Threat Incident Reporting and Information Sharing

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In October 2023, the federal government released a  Proposed Rule aimed at incorporating new cybersecurity reporting requirements into the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). In this second installment of PilieroMazza’s...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Small Businesses Don’t Recognize Risk of Cyber-Attack Despite Repeated Warnings

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CNBC surveys over 2,000 small businesses each quarter to get their thoughts on the overall business environment and their small business’ health. According to the latest CNBC/SurveyMonkey Small Business Survey, despite...more

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Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Webinar Series: Password Protected: Essential Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Planning for Your Small...

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With almost daily news of top firms impacted by data breaches or ransomware attacks, there is no doubt that effective cybersecurity and data privacy are essential to any business. And small businesses are not immune....more

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[Webinar] Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Series: Password Protected: Essential Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Planning for Your Small...

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With almost daily news of top firms impacted by data breaches or ransomware attacks, there is no doubt that effective cybersecurity and data privacy are essential to any business. And small businesses are not immune....more

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Thousands Hacked: New Cyber-Attacks Affect Organizations Big and Small

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Friday afternoon, reports surfaced that a foreign nation had compromised newly-discovered flaws in the Microsoft Exchange Server email software and breached the cybersecurity efforts of more than 60,000 known victims. ...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Financial Services Report - Spring 2021

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Can you say 0 to 60? Not cars, but pretty much everything to do with financial services. A new year, a new administration, and new challenges for providers. Prior CFPB Director Kraninger is long gone. Acting Director Uejio...more

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New York's Deadline to Comply With New Data Privacy Law Fast Approaching

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The Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (known as the SHIELD Act), signed into law by Governor Cuomo last year, comes into full effect on March 21, 2020. The Act’s expansive reach requires businesses in New...more

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Covering the Basics: CISA Announces Cybersecurity Essentials for Small Businesses

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In line with recent actions taken across the government to enhance the resilience of the nation’s cybersecurity apparatus, the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently released a set of best practices for...more

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Is Your Small Business Prioritizing Cybersecurity?

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A recent study surveying small and mid sized businesses (SMBs) found that 67% had experienced a cyber attack in 2018, and yet that same study found that cybersecurity is still “not on the to do list” for SMBs – 60% of the...more

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FTC Cyber Guidance for Small Business has Tips Helpful to All

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The Federal Trade Commission recently issued a cyber guide that, while intended for small businesses, can be of help for all businesses. The purpose of the guide, which includes various modules, is to help smaller businesses...more

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Privacy Tip #162 – Cybersecurity Help for Small Businesses

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Small businesses are targeted by hackers because they often do not have the resources to stay abreast of new schemes, or to protect against them with the latest technology or security solutions. Small businesses have...more

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Web Exclusive - June 2018: The Top 18 Labor And Employment Law Stories

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

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Malley’s Chocolate Data Debacle – How Sweet it Ain’t

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The history of American commerce is small business. Some of them grow to become very big businesses, and as you have seen over the years, it’s amazing how many Fortune 500 companies from 20 years ago, are no longer around in...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

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Cyber FICO Ratings Could Benefit Insurance Underwriting in Multiple Ways

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Nearly 30 years ago the Fair Isaac Corporation (“FICO”) first introduced its metric for measuring creditworthiness. Since then, the FICO Score has become a default metric used by countless market participants to facilitate...more

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The Dark Web And Its Impact On Small Business

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Most business owners are all too familiar with identity theft. What they might not be sufficiently aware of is the “Dark Web” where identity theft thieves buy and sell stolen personal information. The Dark Web Defined-...more

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Small Business, Big Risk: Cybersecurity Threats Facing Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

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When it comes to cybersecurity and data breaches, smaller businesses do not necessarily make less likely targets. According to a recent report on the state of cybersecurity in small and medium-sized businesses by the Ponemon...more

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Cybersecurity Bill Aims to Patch Holes in Main Street

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The US Senate Commerce Committee recently advanced a bill, titled the MAIN STREET Cybersecurity Act of 2017 (the Bill), under which the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) would disseminate “clear and...more

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Privacy Tip #78 – Cybersecurity Aids for Small Businesses

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I frequently get complaints from small businesses that they don’t have the resources or resilience to properly address cybersecurity and that it is overwhelming to them. Well, it is. We frequently tell businesses that...more

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Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Reports on Online Small Business Lending Focus Groups

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The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland recently issued a special report on the results of online focus groups it conducted with the Federal Reserve Board “to better understand small businesses’ perceptions of online...more

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