Information Security and ISO 27001
A Compliance Officer Turned Board Member's Advice
Cyberside Chats: Protect Your Crown Jewels – Nobody breaks into a bank to steal the posters
No Password Required: The Philosopher CISO of Tallahassee Who Lives to Help Other People
Cyberside Chats - Zero Trust and Cyber Negligence: A conversation with Dr. Zero Trust Chase Cunningham
No Password Required: A Former Police Officer Who Embodies All the Qualities of a Great Leader
Modernize your Information Governance: Building a Framework for Success
CyberSide Chats: Recap of the White House Cyber Summit (with Amanda Fennell)
Canna We Talk Cannabis? Cybersecurity Risks Bring Growing Pains to Cannabis Businesses
The Importance Of Cybersecurity During A Merger & Acquisition Transaction
Phishing and Vishing and Smishing (Oh my!): New Types of Scams Require Increased Vigilance
Information leaks can range from exposures of internal decisions and salary data to the disclosure of intellectual property, strategy documents, or board minutes. Whether accidental or intentional, these leaks demand...more
Pressure for companies to use AI to gain a competitive advantage (or at least not fall behind versus competitors) is steadily rising, and in 2024, CEOs will push their Legal, Compliance, Privacy, and IT Teams to deploy AI...more
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the preparation of materials filed with the courts has been the subject of recent practice directions, with certain Canadian courts requiring that any reliance on AI by a litigant...more
Currently defense contractors who receive or create Controlled Unclassified Information (“CUI”) from or for the U.S. Department of Defense (“DoD”) are subject to several contract-based cybersecurity requirements, including...more
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) extended the deadline from September 19, 2022, to October 19, 2022, for government contractors to object to OFCCP’s possible release of the contractors’ Type 2...more
On August 19, 2022, the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published a public notice to contractors about a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the Center for Investigative...more
In case the complexities of corporate data weren’t creating enough turbulence to keep corporate and legal teams up at night, along comes a prolonged pandemic to really shake things up. Because now, a complex data landscape...more
I'm still elated to see the return to in-person events - there is so much to share now that we're getting back together. Earlier this month, I returned to the stage at Legalweek to share ideas with the brilliant Linn Freedman...more
Many of us are keeping an eye on the Russia-Ukraine situation these days, and the situation seems to get more serious, not just daily, but hourly. The situation has worldwide ramifications in just about every way possible,...more
InfoGov Day 2022 is this Thursday, February 17. As we celebrate how far this discipline and its' professionals have come, we look toward a strong future for Information Governance. This inaugural year's celebration through...more
Editor’s Note: On September 30, 2021, HaystackID shared an educational webcast presented at the 2021 Privacy + Security Fall Academy. The webcast provided viewers with a framework and solutions for deploying privacy-based...more
A myopic focus on protecting EMR (Electronic Medical Records) systems has left healthcare organizations open to shadow information risk. In a world where hackers and ransomware criminals are regularly compromising healthcare...more
From the beginning, Information Governance, or InfoGov, has been focused on helping Corporations manage their data, often involving the legal, compliance, and IT departments working together. But what about a corporation’s...more
Ari Kaplan recently spoke with Kenya Parrish-Dixon, a member of the ACEDS Global Advisory Board and the General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer for Empire Technologies Risk Management Group, a cybersecurity, information...more
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) has issued a special alert to its member firms, alerting them to an imposter website: www.finnra.org (containing an extra “n”)....more
FINRA held its bi-annual Cybersecurity Conference in January and recently published five take-away real-world experiences from the conference...more
The combination of emerging technologies, information security risks and electronic discovery obligations continues to give rise to questions regarding best practices for adoption of modern ephemeral communication tools in...more
The heightened state of information security in recent years has instigated genuine collaboration, in many organizations, amongst its professionals in IT, records, security, risk, compliance, and other stakeholders in...more
These days information security is on the minds of virtually all technology professionals and business executives alike. But how does an organization ensure that their security profile is adequate. It can certainly help to...more
Effective information governance is about taking information — your most important business asset — and looking at ways to better leverage it in a manner that streamlines the business processes, and reduces costs and risk....more