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Information Technology Risk Management Remote Working

Alston & Bird

North Korean IT Remote Worker Fraud Scheme Data Security and Employment Law Impact

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The recent indictment of 14 North Korean nationals for fraudulently obtaining remote IT jobs with U.S.-based companies underscores the importance of vigilant hiring practices. Our Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy and...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Continued Remote Hiring Concerns in IT Sector: What to Look for in 2025 and How to Mitigate Business Risk

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Remote worker fraud is expected to continue to proliferate in 2025. Fully remote hiring and work, particularly in the technology sector, continues to pose unique business and legal risks for companies. Just in December 2024,...more

Baker Donelson

How Remote Hiring Practices Could Lead to Infiltration of Your Organization: North Korea Operatives are Exploiting Remote Hiring...

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In today's fast-paced digital world, businesses often seek to access a global pool of skilled professionals by turning to remote talent to fill gaps in their IT needs. Although this practice has many advantages, it also...more

Alston & Bird

Combatting the New Insider Threat: North Korean IT Workers Posing as Remote Employees

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The New York Department of Financial Services issued a cybersecurity advisory on November 1, 2024, regarding a growing threat posed by North Korean operatives seeking remote IT roles at U.S. companies. These operatives secure...more

Guidepost Solutions LLC

Unlocking the Power of Precision: Data Quality and Accessibility for Corporate Security Departments

Amidst the relentless waves of pandemic-induced uncertainty, organizations found themselves at a crossroads, compelled to reimagine how their businesses operated. For example, when stay at home orders continued to be extended...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

The Academic Advisor - Education Law Insights, Issue 9, November 2023

The Accreditation Overhaul for North Carolina (and Florida) Colleges - Last month, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper signed House Bill 8 (HB 8) into law. In addition to establishing a new computer science requirement for...more

J.S. Held

Cyber Hygiene in 2023: Part 2 – Cyber Hygiene for Remote and Hybrid Workforce

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In the first part of this mini-series, we identified that showing everyday users how to secure data may not be as important as highlighting why data security matters. The “why” helps everyday users appreciate and internalize...more

NAVEX

3 IRM Trends & Predictions for 2022

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Integrated Risk Management (IRM) and Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) are critical areas for business security and success. But all too often these programs aren’t thoroughly tested – or worse, aren’t...more

K2 Integrity

Cyber Predictions 2022

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Where We Stand - This year kicks off against the backdrop of the security flaw found in Log4j, a system-logging code library widely used in applications and services across the Internet. In the aftermath of this crisis, a...more

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The New Normal Workplace (pt. 1) – R&C Management

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Most businesses began 2021 with ambitions to return to the office. But in keeping with a trend of disruption, we are faced with new COVID variants, questions on when and how schools will respond, a cultural shift towards...more

NAVEX

IT and Corporate Compliance: Bridging the Gap in the Era of Remote and Hybrid Work

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In many ways, the COVID-19 pandemic has served as a prime example of punctuated equilibrium. Shifts that have been slowly building for decades seemingly occurred overnight, giving us the contradictory sense that these changes...more

Reveal

What is Shadow IT and Why Your Legal Team Should Be Concerned

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Before the COVID-19 Pandemic, legal technology writers like myself, wrote about BYOD (an acronym for Bring Your Own Device) policies and how they affect the eDiscovery process. But since March 2020 and the great migration...more

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[Webinar] Dealing with the Growing Risks of the ‘Shadow IT’ Environment - August 11th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm BST

The ever-expanding information technology environment is one of the biggest challenges for IT, e-discovery and digital forensics practitioners today. It takes just seconds for anyone to open a webpage and download a new tool...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Cisco/Talos Researchers Find Attackers Using Slack and Discord to Distribute Malware

Another example of the resiliency and creativity of cyber-attackers is outlined in a new blog by Cisco/Talos researchers, which outlines how, over the past year, and in particular as a result of the migration from work at the...more

NAVEX

[Webinar] Risk Management + IT Security in the Work-From-Home Era - April 8th, 9:30 am - 10:00 am PDT

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Learn More About: - Recent Regulatory Changes - The Scope & Complexity of Cybersecurity Risk - Tips to Join Forces with the IT Department - - Mapping Cybersecurity Risks to Controls & Operations - IT Frameworks to...more

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Risk Management & IT Security in the Work From Home Era

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The shift to remote work resulting from the COVID pandemic has increased the scope of risk and thus broadened the area of responsibility for risk managers. In addition to complying with regulations, which continue to...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Are Your IT Agreements COVID-19 Secure?

Cybersecurity has earned its place at the top of organizations’ risk concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic. Remote working, an array of communication solutions and hardware being used by organizations, and the accelerated...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Virtual Event] 2021 25th Annual Compliance Institute - April 19th - 22nd, 9:30 am - 4:35 pm CDT

The Compliance Institute is celebrating 25 years! Join us for the Compliance Institute's 25th anniversary, April 19-22, 2021. This year, HCCA is excited to celebrate over two decades of compliance excellence with our...more

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics...

[Virtual Event] 2021 Southern California Regional Compliance & Ethics Conference - January 22nd, 8:25 am - 5:30 pm PST

Our Virtual Regional Compliance Conferences provide updates on the latest news in regulatory requirements, compliance enforcement, and strategies to develop effective compliance programs. Watch, listen, and ask questions from...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Secureworks 2020 Incident Response Report Confirms Increased Vulnerabilities with At Home Workers During Pandemic

Secureworks issues an annual Incident Response Report that is very helpful in obtaining information on what types of incidents are occurring in order to become more resistant to threats. The 2020 IR Report was recently...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

Managing the New Normal with a Remote Workforce: Interact 2020

At the recent Mitratech Interact US 2020 online event, Tony Bethell, VP Alliances at Mitratech, and Jay Chakraborty, a Partner at PWC, explored the practical steps businesses are taking to manage better the challenges of...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

The Pandemic Lessons: The Future Of ESG And How It Will Define Business Success

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The rapidly increasing importance of a company’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance to its business value, has been a critical trend leading into 2020. This trend was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic,...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

Privacy, Pandemics, and Business Change…OH MY!!!

Economic uncertainty, health and safety, work from home, IT security issues, continuity, and operational resiliency…it is like an intricate pattern of dominos falling over....more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Conducting Trade Secret and Restrictive Covenant Investigations Remotely

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One of the first things a company should do when it suspects that its trade secrets have been compromised or that an employee has violated post-employment restrictive covenants is to conduct an investigation. ...more

Lowndes

Zoom Demonstrates that Security Is Not IT’s Problem

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Amidst the coronavirus pandemic, remote meetings have become “the new normal,” with Zoom, seemingly overnight, becoming the platform of choice. Zoom’s success is attributable to the fact that “it just works.”...more

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