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[Event] 41st Annual Employment Law Update - May 15th, Hampton, VA

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Managing risk in the employment law circus isn’t always easy when the rules change like they are contortionists. The 41st Annual Employment Law Update will highlight recent changes to the law and how employers can most...more

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Human Resources’ Role in Data Privacy and Cybersecurity, Part V: Ethical Obligations When Responding to a Breach of Employee Data

In today’s digital landscape, many organizations will likely face the unfortunate reality of a breach of employee data. The human resources department is the critical link between safeguarding a company’s reputation and...more

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Human Resources’ Role in Data Privacy and Cybersecurity, Part IV: Communicating Effectively With Employees After a Data Breach

In today’s data-driven environment, effective communication during a cybersecurity breach is crucial for maintaining employee trust and confidence. This fourth article in our five-part series on employee data privacy focuses...more

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Human Resources’ Role in Data Privacy and Cybersecurity, Part II: Assessing Five Key Areas of Risk

In today’s digital landscape, many organizations may face the unfortunate reality of a data breach. This second installment of a five-part series on employee data privacy will explore the key areas of risk that human...more

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Human Resources’ Role in Data Privacy and Cybersecurity, Part I: The Basics

Welcome to our five-part series on human resources’ (HR) role in managing employee data privacy with grace, agility, and expertise. In this five-part series, each article will build on previous installments to help HR...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

3 essential employee trainings for your company curriculum

Tuesday was HR Professionals Day, an annual celebration that recognizes the hard work of Human Resource personnel and highlights the unique challenges they face. HR departments are often maligned, but they ensure that...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Social engineering in tax season: Form W-2 exploits

This year’s deadline for filing individual tax returns is April 18. Malicious actors routinely target human resources professionals, certified public accountants, and individual employees with social engineering attacks...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

[Event] Interact 2022 - August 14th - 17th, Nashville, TN

Exclusive roadmap reveals, immersive Q&A with top product & industry experts, live product demos, electrifying presentations, co-innovation opportunities, and so much more— all coming to you live from the heart of Nashville,...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Part 2: Cybersecurity and the Role of Management

Cybersecurity has long been viewed as a “tech” issue that only concerns a company’s IT department. Not anymore! In this episode, Ron Sarian, Chair of Constangy's Digital Workplace & Data Privacy Practice Group, shares his...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Part 1: Cybersecurity and the Role of Management

Cybersecurity has long been viewed as a “tech” issue that only concerns a company’s IT department. Not anymore! In this episode, Ron Sarian, Chair of Constangy's Digital Workplace & Data Privacy Practice Group, shares his...more

Dentons

IWD job service claims theft a growing problem

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Many employers are facing growing problems with identity theft in a new way: data is being used to file false claims including requests for job service benefits and SBA loans through the PPP, among others. To address this...more

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The New York SHIELD Act: What Employers Need To Know

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As mega-breaches heighten concern about the security of personal information and a federal solution does not appear forthcoming, New York recently joined the growing list of states imposing their own security obligations on...more

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Data Security Tips for Human Resources Professionals

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The task of securing company networks and systems is no longer delegated solely to an organization’s IT department. Human resources plays an equally important role in protecting company data. The authors of this article...more

Fisher Phillips

Don’t Take the Bait! “Spear Phishing” and “Whaling” Take Scams to the Next Level

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For several years now, we’ve been alerting employers about the dangers of phishing scams that attempt to obtain private and personal information from employers... Many of these scams rear their ugly head around tax season,...more

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Data Breach Liability for Pennsylvania Employers Expands – Pennsylvania Supreme Court Holds that Employers Have a Duty of Care to...

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Data breach liability for Pennsylvania employers of all sizes expanded with a recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision in Dittman v. UPMC. __ A.3d __, No. 43 WAP 2017, 2018 WL 6072199 (Pa. 2018). The Pennsylvania Supreme...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

A Human Resources Manager’s Guide to the GDPR (Part 4)

This article is Part 4 of our series on the GDPR for U.S.-based companies. Part 1 assisted U.S.-based companies in determining whether the GDPR applies to them; Part 2 provided an overview of the GDPR’s key concepts and...more

Fisher Phillips

Employers Take Note: Tax Season Phishing Scams on the Rise

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It is tax season once again, and with it comes an increased threat of phishing scams targeting human resources and payroll personnel. In 2016, the IRS alerted employers to a then-emerging email phishing scheme in which...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

The Intersection of Human Resources and Cybersecurity: How to Mitigate Threats from Within: Insights from Nutter’s Seth Berman

Seth Berman, a partner in Nutter’s Litigation Department and a leader of the firm’s Privacy and Data Security practice group, analyzed the intersection of cybersecurity and human resources in Nutter Insights. Seth outlined...more

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How Employers Can Become Experts at Data Breaches: Incident Response Plans

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A large portion of the data breaches that occur each year involve human resource related issues. This includes situations in which HR data was lost, employees were inadvertently responsible for the loss of information about...more

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How Employers Can Become Experts at Data Breaches: Breaches involving employee health information

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A large portion of the data breaches that occur each year involve human resource related information. Bryan Cave has put together a multi-part series to help human resource managers understand, prepare for, and react to, a...more

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Cyber-insurance and Employee Data Breaches: Part 3

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A large portion of the hundreds of data breaches and thousands of data security incidents that occur each year involve human resource related issues. This includes situations in which HR data was lost, employees were...more

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Cyber-insurance and Employee Data Breaches: Part 1

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A large portion of the hundreds of data breaches and thousands of data security incidents that occur each year involve human resource related issues. This includes situations in which HR data was lost, employees were...more

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How Employers Can Become Experts at Data Breaches: Understand the Lingo

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Many human resource professionals may not be familiar with data security-related terminology. As a result, when an incident occurs there can be confusion when terms like “security event” or “data breach” are thrown around....more

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The 2017 Human Resource Professional's Handbook for Data Security Breaches

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About twelve years ago, when most people had never heard the term “data breach”, a colleague asked me what type of law I practiced. I tried to explain that I helped companies collect, secure, and share data, and, when data...more

Perkins Coie

Give Your Customers the Gift of Security

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2017 has reminded us that data security threats continue to evolve and that the stakes for companies can be very high if their data security programs fail to evolve as well. Before the recent announcement of Equifax’s...more

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