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Spring Cleaning and Tune-up for Your Trade Secret Portfolio: Eight Steps

Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C. on 4/15/2025

Spring has arrived, and in addition to cleaning, it’s a good time to reassess how your company is handling its trade secrets. Far from being static, trade secret innovations, processes, and data evolve over time. Business...more

Hospital Administrators – Is Your Hospital Cyber-Secure?

Lippes Mathias LLP on 11/20/2024

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

New York State Prepares to Regulate Hospital Cybersecurity Programs

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 11/29/2023

On November 13, 2023, Governor Kathy Hochul announced plans to regulate cybersecurity for New York general hospitals regulated under Article 28 of the Public Health Law. As proposed, the regulations will provide an additional...more

COVID-19: Navigating the New Norm: A Legal Perspective

K&L Gates LLP on 7/30/2020

HOW DID WE GET HERE? Business leaders are grappling with challenges which are unprecedented and which have not been witnessed on such a global scale previously. As COVID-19 spreads across the world, governments reacted by...more

Energy Newsletter - April 2020

King & Spalding on 4/17/2020

Developing Contingency Plans: The NYDFS Mandate on Licensed Virtual Currency Businesses - The events surrounding COVID-19 have increased the use of fintech products, both out of necessity and convenience. Shelter-in-place...more

New York Dept of Financial Services (NYDFS) Extends Cybersecurity Compliance Deadline

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 4/1/2020

The NYDFS has announced that it has extended the deadline for compliance with certain cybersecurity requirements due to the coronavirus emergency. The announcement from the Superintendent of Financial Services of the State...more

Living in the Cloud: Practical Approaches to Cybersecurity Risks (Part III of III)

The Volkov Law Group on 9/12/2019

Businesses are increasingly relying on the cloud to store confidential and sensitive information. One-third of information technology budgets are used for cloud services. Rapid growth in cloud storage is expected over the...more

Summary Judgment: Recent HIPAA Case Emphasizes Encryption, Action on Risk Analysis - AHLA Health Information and Technology...

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 8/2/2018

On June 18, 2018, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced that an HHS Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) granted summary judgment to OCR in an enforcement action...more

New Cybersecurity Rules for Colorado Investment Advisers and Broker-Dealers

Snell & Wilmer on 8/9/2017

Colorado has adopted new rules that add cybersecurity requirements for certain entities with Colorado securities licenses. The rules are from the regulatory agency the Division of Securities. It licenses securities...more

New Cybersecurity Requirements for New York Financial Companies

Snell & Wilmer on 3/7/2017

The New York Department of Financial Services has new cybersecurity regulations “designed to promote the protection of customer information as well as the information technology systems of regulated entities [financial...more

New York Financial Services Cybersecurity Regulations Go Into Effect on March 1st

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 2/27/2017

We have previously reported about the upcoming New York Financial Services Cybersecurity Regulations. On February 16, 2017, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced that “the first-in the-nation cybersecurity regulation to protect...more

The “Final Final” is Here: NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulations

Hogan Lovells on 2/27/2017

As Hogan Lovells previously reported, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has launched a significant initiative to impose detailed cybersecurity requirements on covered financial institutions. On...more

NY DFS Cybersecurity Regulations Take Effect March 1, 2017

Carlton Fields on 2/27/2017

We previously reported on the New York Department of Financial Services’ proposed cybersecurity regulations. During the public comment period, the DFS received over 150 comments. In response, the DFS announced on December 28,...more

NY DFS Proposed Cybersecurity Regulations Revised and Implementation Delayed

Carlton Fields on 1/17/2017

Business Litigation Alert: "Law Firms Victim to Data Breaches"

Porter Hedges LLP on 5/3/2016

Recently, reports surfaced that multiple law firms have fallen victim to data breaches, prompting class action litigation against the firms for exposing their clients' information. Law firms house a great deal of highly...more

Data-Security Assessments? You’re Going to Want a Lawyer for That

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP on 10/21/2015

These days, data breaches and cybersecurity attacks abound. With each news cycle, we’re confronted with stories about yet another big breach, at another big company, with the potential exposure of another big pool of...more

TN Ethics Opinion Approves Lawyers’ Cloud Storage of Client Data

Burr & Forman on 9/25/2015

Tennessee has joined other states in formally approving lawyers’ cloud-storage of client-confidential data. The Board of Professional Responsibility (“BOPR”) held that lawyers ethically may use cloud storage for...more

Intellectual Property Newsletter - July - August 2015

King & Spalding on 8/6/2015

Protecting Trade Secrets in the Era of the Data Breach - The prevalence of data breaches cannot be ignored. New data breaches continue to occur one after an-other. In the first half of 2015 alone there were reports of...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Newsletter: International Edition July 2015

Troutman Pepper Locke on 7/31/2015

Retail Tracking Update: Privacy Guidance Following Nomi Technologies - There is currently a widespread effort to quantify everything, from steps, to sleep, to batted ball exit velocity. Fifteen years ago, TV host Jeremy...more

Sizing Up Cyber Risks after the Sony Breach

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP on 12/24/2014

Sony’s most recent data breach underscores the difficulties in underwriting and insuring cyber risk. Sony incurred losses that were surprising in both their scope and type. The company already is a defendant in at least four...more

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