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Inside New Commerce Tech Restrictions: Mitigation Strategies

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The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security has issued the final rule that will determine how its Information and Communications Technology and Services regulations will work going forward....more

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How to Prevent Data Exfiltration and Protect Your IP – Q&A with Steve Davis

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What exactly is data exfiltration, and why should organizations be concerned about it? Data exfiltration is the movement or migration of company-owned trade secrets or intellectual property outside of the enterprise. It...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

The Vendor Onboarding Process: Keys to Success

What Is Vendor Onboarding? Vendor onboarding is the process of establishing a company as an approved provider of technology, goods, or services to your organization. It’s also an essential early step in the vendor risk...more

Accelerynt, Inc.

How Over-engineered Security Stacks Are Killing Agility—And What to Do About It

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Tool sprawl is paralyzing enterprise security teams. Learn how to shift from fragile, over-engineered stacks to agile security architectures that accelerate progress....more

A&O Shearman

European Commission adopts RTS on the elements to assess when subcontracting certain ICT services under DORA

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The European Commission has adopted a Delegated Regulation supplementing Regulation 2022/2554 on digital operational resilience for the financial sector (DORA) with regard to regulatory technical standards specifying the...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

5 Common Pitfalls in IT Disaster Recovery (and How to Avoid Them)

Even the strongest IT/DR plans can fail if they aren’t proactive about avoiding these common mistakes. When systems go down, business grinds to a halt. Downtime leads to $9,000 in losses per minute on average, damaged...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

IT/DR Plan Spring Cleaning: How to Replace Outdated Policies

Ready to ditch outdated guidelines and adopt a fresh take on your IT Disaster Recovery plans? Spring is the season of renewal, making it the perfect time to refresh not only physical spaces but also strategies and...more

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Do You Know Who Your Employee Is? Mitigating DPRK IT Worker Risk

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North Korean IT operatives are infiltrating U.S. and Western companies using stolen or fabricated identities, VPNs, and U.S.-based co-conspirators to gain unauthorized access to corporate systems. These insider threats pose...more

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European Commission rejects draft technical standards on sub-contracting ICT services under Digital Operational Resilience Act

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The European Commission has published a letter (dated 21 January 2025) addressed to the Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) rejecting certain draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) the ESAs...more

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Cybersecurity: The changing threat and risk landscape

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Cyber issues are seldom out of the news, from ransomware attacks and espionage to non-malicious outages that cause widespread concern. Organizations need to protect themselves against both current and future risks and...more

Mandelbaum Barrett PC

The CISO as a Chess Piece: A Comprehensive Strategic Analysis

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Let’s role-play the title “Chief Information Security Officer” (CISO) as various chess pieces, each representing different aspects of the challenges and responsibilities faced in this critical position.  Examining these...more

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OMB Issues Guidance to Agencies on Responsible Artificial Intelligence Acquisitions

Contractors interested in offering federal agencies artificial intelligence (AI) can now glean insight into how agencies are expected to conduct AI acquisitions. On September 24, 2024, the Office of Management and Budget...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Preparing for the Digital Operational Resilience Act (“DORA”): Key Steps for Payments and Fintech Clients

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (“DORA”), an EU regulation designed to bolster the resilience of financial entities against Information and Communications Technology (“ICT”) risks, entered into force on January 16,...more

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Supply Chain Attacks in the UK: Reducing Risk and Preparing for Upcoming Legal Changes

Effective information security is no longer just dependent on an organisation’s own internal cybersecurity controls. The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) highlights that third-party service providers are processing...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

[Webinar] Data Risk & Resilience Part IV - Data Deletion Dilemma: A Unified Approach to Defensible Data Disposal - September 26th,...

Data Resilience Masterclass: Navigating the Risks of the Digital Age - Data Risk and Resilience is a critical topic for modern businesses, especially within industries that handle vast amounts of sensitive information....more

Warner Norcross + Judd

Managing Cybersecurity Risk for Family Offices and Businesses

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Whether caused by family member thoughtlessness, employee error or the acts of a skilled data thief, everyone is likely to be the victim of an information breach at some point. A cyberattack on a family office or family...more

K&L Gates LLP

Digital Operational Resilience in the Financial Services Sector: EU and UK Update

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With under six months to go until the European Union Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) becomes applicable on 17 January 2025, DORA implementation projects are running full steam ahead. DORA lays down uniform...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

RegFi Episode 42: Beyond the Breach: The CISO’s Role as a Strategic Risk Manager

RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Sherry Safchuk welcome Orrick partner Aravind Swaminathan for a conversation exploring the critical and evolving role of the Chief Information Security Officer in today’s corporate landscape.....more

StoneTurn

Building a High Trust Organisation

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In a high trust organisation each member can be relied upon to demonstrate behaviours which foster transparency, good decision making and delivery of the shared vision without a large controlling overhead. It’s rare in...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

What Everyone Gets Wrong About Inherent Risk, and Why it Really Matters

Defining the role of inherent risk in cybersecurity - Inherent risk is a concept that while fundamental to cybersecurity, has largely been disregarded by popular cybersecurity risk guidelines and standards and remains arcane...more

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DoD Unveils Cybersecurity Strategy for Defense Industrial Base: What You Need to Know

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The United States Department of Defense (“DoD”) recently published its Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity Strategy 2024. For context, the DIB is comprised of more than 100,000 domestic and foreign companies or...more

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Export Controls Evolving for Infosec Threats to Cloud, SaaS, IaaS, AI Platforms

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The growth of cloud services, Software-as-a-Service (“SaaS”) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (“IaaS”) arrangements, Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) models, and increased reliance on the use outsourced technology service...more

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics...

Third-party due diligence: Are supplier questionnaire(s) the answer?

Numerous laws (U.K. Bribery Act guidance document, German Supply Chain Act, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act resource guide, OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and...more

Jones Day

NYDFS Expands Cybersecurity Regulations: Extortion Payment Reporting, Corporate Governance, and Technical Requirements

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A major amendment to the New York State Department of Financial Services' cybersecurity regulations establishes affirmative cybersecurity oversight duties and requires companies to report extortion payments to the agency....more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

RegFi Episode 8: The Technological Path to Outcomes-Based Regulation with Matt Van Buskirk

Matt Van Buskirk, co-founder of Hummingbird Regtech, joins RegFi hosts Jerry Buckley and Sherry Safchuk for a conversation about the importance of equipping regulators and in-house compliance teams with the tools and...more

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