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A&O Shearman

CMORG AI Taskforce releases comprehensive AI Baseline Guidance

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The Cross Market Operational Resilience Group's (CMORG) AI Taskforce has released its AI Baseline Guidance Review (dated January 2025), accompanied by a press release. The CMORG AI Taskforce conducted a baseline review of...more

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Cybersecurity Risks for Financial Services Firms: Proactive Strategies to Stay Ahead

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The 2024 CrowdStrike outage and the ransomware attack on NHS partner Synnovis hit mainstream news and highlighted the fragility of ICT supply chains and the risks posed by cyber incidents....more

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UK’s National Cyber Security Centre Releases 2024 Annual Review

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The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has released its Annual Review for 2024. As in prior years, the report covers the UK’s cyber security position, both in terms of threats to the public and private...more

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Securing our world: how businesses can prepare for and recover from cyber attacks

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As part of our Cybersecurity Awareness Month program of events, we hosted our inaugural Cybersecurity Forum on October 1 at our London office and online. Compèred by Ffion Flockhart, global head of cybersecurity, the day’s...more

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Communications in a Cyber Incident – Guidance

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The UK National Cyber Security Centre has published guidance on effective communications in a cyber incident. While targeted at organisations generally, rather than explicitly at pension scheme trustees, the guidance contains...more

DLA Piper

UK: NCSC Issue Guidance on How to Communicate Effectively in a Cyber Incident

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Planning and developing an effective communications strategy is a critical step in preparing for a cyber security incident. Last week, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre published guidance on communicating with...more

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The UK Government Announces Ambitious Proposals to Improve Software Security and Resilience

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In light of the increasing organizational use of and reliance on software and the concerns raised regarding the malicious use of the same, the UK Government has published a response to its call for views on software...more

Epiq

The Rising Threat of Cyber Incidents

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In today’s digital world, cyber incidents pose a significant risk to businesses of all sizes. From data breaches to ransomware attacks, organisations face a barrage of threats and unfortunately, the discussion has moved from...more

J.S. Held

2024 J.S. Held Global Risk Report: New Laws Addressing the Risks and Rewards of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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The race to develop AI and calls to regulate it are heating up around the world. In November 2023, 28 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, China, and the European Union, met and pledged to work together to...more

White & Case LLP

Guardians of the AI Galaxy: Lessons from Bletchley Park

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Last week, on 1 and 2 November 2023, the UK hosted the world's inaugural large-scale AI Safety Summit (the "Summit") at the historic Bletchley Park – once the epicenter of WWII code-breaking efforts. A milestone event, the...more

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Key Takeaways from the UK’s AI Summit: The Bletchley Declaration

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The United Kingdom hosted an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Safety Summit on November 1 – 2 at Bletchley Park with the purpose of bringing together those leading the AI charge, including international governments, AI companies,...more

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UK – NCSC publishes guidance on shadow IT

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The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) published its guidance on shadow IT on 27 July 2023. ‘Shadow IT’ are unknown assets that are used within an organisation for business purposes (including in certain cloud...more

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Ransomware - why paying up earns no credit with the UK's Data Protection Authority and others

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In a joint letter this summer, the UK’s data protection regulator (the ICO) and the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (the NCSC) sought to convey some key messages to the legal profession relevant to advising clients...more

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UK Information Commissioner’s Office Issues Warning on Ransomware Payments

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On July 8, 2022, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (UK ICO) together with the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), published a joint letter asking the Law Society of England & Wales to remind its members that they...more

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[Webinar] Mitigating Risk Exposure Under Evolving Global Cookies Regulations - May 19th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT

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The regulation of cookies and similar tracking technologies is rapidly evolving, not only in the European Union and United Kingdom but also in the United States and globally. If you have visited a website recently, you might...more

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Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - August 2020

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In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the National Institute of Standards and Technology's four principles of the "explainability" of artificial intelligence and the U.K. Information...more

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What UK Authorized Firms Need to Know

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In this episode recorded in late February, Akin Gump financial regulatory partners Helen Marshall and Ezra Zahabi, using Akin Gump’s recently published In Principle annual report as a springboard, discuss what U.K. authorized...more

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Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - March 2020

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In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine comments from the California attorney general's office regarding the start date for enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act in light of...more

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Cybersecurity and the UK legal landscape

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As businesses continue to digitise their assets and operations, the need to continually assess IT infrastructure and the technical measures in place to safeguard key information assets and data becomes ever more important....more

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UK Government Issues Report on Huawei Vulnerabilities

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On March 28, 2019, the Oversight Board of the United Kingdom’s Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC) released a report identifying “serious and systematic defects in Huawei’s software engineering and cyber security...more

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Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - May 2017

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In this edition of our Privacy and Cybersecurity Update, we take a look at the Trump administration's executive order outlining its cybersecurity plans, Acting FTC Chairwoman Maureen Ohlhausen's comments on the possible...more

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How Businesses Can Reduce Cyber Risk: Pre and Post Incident: Businesses Need to Take a More Proactive Approach to Reducing What Is...

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As the volume of sensitive data that businesses store ever increases, the use of mobile devices continues to grow and cyber villains become ever more sophisticated, it is perhaps of no surprise that we hear about new...more

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