No Password Required: Director and Cybersecurity Adviser at KPMG and Rain Culture Authority
No Password Required: Founder and Commissioner of the US Cyber Games, CEO of the Cyber Marketing Firm Katzcy, and Someone Who Values Perseverance Over Perfection
Biometric Litigation
Founder of Cyber Security Unity, Member of the Order of the British Empire, and Appreciator of '80s Soap Operas
Illinois Supreme Court Clarifies BIPA Violation Accruals, Opening the Door for “Annihilative” Damage
No Password Required: The Custom T-Shirt-Wearing CEO Who Not Only Appreciates Mega Man ... He Basically Is One
Hybrid Workforces and Compliance with Sheila Limmroth
Legislating Data Privacy Series: A Conversation with Massachusetts Representatives Dave Rogers and Andy Vargas
State Law Privacy Video Series | Privacy and Sensitive Information
Podcast: BIPA Trends in 2022
State Law Privacy Video Series | Applicability
Getting Personal—Wearable Devices, Data, and Compliance
Episode 8: Why brokers, not breaches, are America's greatest privacy threat (with Rob Shavell)
NGE On Demand: Personal Data Protection Travels: The New Standard Contractual Clause with John Koenigsknecht and David Wheeler
Inside Privacy Law: The Regulation of Personal Data
NGE On Demand: Cybersecurity Considerations for Emerging Companies with Michael Gray and David Wheeler
Oklahoma: Changing Data Privacy as We Know It?
The Convergence of AI and Data Privacy in eDiscovery: Using AI and Analytics to Identify Personal Information
Reducing Cybersecurity Burdens with a Customized Data Breach Workflow
Sitting with the C-Suite: Looking Ahead to Potential Compliance Issues Due to COVID-19
A massive data breach hit one of the country’s largest education software providers. According to EducationWeek, PowerSchool provides school software products to more than 16,000 customers, largely K-12 schools, that serve 50...more
New York recently passed new cybersecurity regulations for hospitals licensed in New York to enhance patient safety and cybersecurity....more
Unit 42 recently reported that it has identified “Jumpy Pisces, a North Korean state-sponsored threat group associated with the Reconnaissance General Bureau of the Korean People’s Army, as a key player in a recent ransomware...more
As the last two years have clearly demonstrated, no organization is immune from cyberattacks. Indeed, numerous studies have reported that a majority of businesses have been impacted by at least one cyberattack over the past...more
Scammers are always looking for new ways to dupe victims. If you battle your weight, you think about it a lot and are always looking for easier ways to lose some pounds. There is no easy way, but we are always looking for an...more
Since 2016, the federal government has implemented numerous procurement regulations and associated contract clauses to address cybersecurity by requiring contractors to adopt various controls and standards to protect...more
California Governor Gavin Newsom approved an amendment to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) extending privacy rights to a person’s neural data. Neural data is defined as information that is generated by measuring the...more
Everyone thinks they can spot a phishing email. If true, we would not see so many security incidents, data breaches, and ransomware attacks. The statistics are overwhelming that phishing emails are a significant cause of data...more
On June 13, 2024, the Rhode Island legislature passed the Rhode Island Data Transparency and Privacy Protection Act (the “Act”), which became law in late June. The Act aims to protect the personal information of Rhode Island...more
‘Dear Mary,’ is Troutman Pepper’s Incidents + Investigations team’s advice column. Here, you will find Mary’s answers to questions about anything and everything cyber-related – data breaches, forensic investigations, how to...more
TeamViewer, which provides remote connectivity products and services, announced that it detected a cybersecurity event on its internal IT system on June 26, 2024. TeamViewer stated that it did not affect the TeamViewer...more
With the announcement of UK General Election for Thursday 4 July 2024, the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill has not completed the legislative process before the end of the current parliamentary session and will...more
Minnesota becomes the latest state to move to pass legislation regulating the processing and controlling of personal data (HF 4757 / SF 4782). If signed into law by Governor Tim Walz, the Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act,...more
On March 6, 2024, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu signed into law SB 255-FN, An Act Relative to the Expectation of Privacy (the “Act”), making New Hampshire the 14th state to enact a comprehensive data privacy law —...more
On January 16, 2024, New Jersey became the fourteenth state to enact comprehensive privacy legislation after the passage of the New Jersey Data Privacy Act (“NJDPA”), adding to the growing national focus on consumer personal...more
CYBERSECURITY - Ransomware Hitting U.S. Companies at Increasing Rate - Unfortunately, according to Unit 42 of Palo Alto’s recently published “Ransomware and Extortion Report,” ransomware groups had a good year in 2022....more
The American Hospital Association (AHA) has warned that information technology (IT) help desks are being targeted in a social engineering scheme that uses the stolen identity of revenue cycle employees or employees in other...more
Unfortunately, according to Unit 42 of Palo Alto’s recently published “Ransomware and Extortion Report,” ransomware groups had a good year in 2022. They found that threat actors are using multi-extortion tactics to get paid...more
When it comes to data privacy and regulation of personal information, United States companies face a number of major challenges. Compliance is not easy when you have fast-moving targets. The single biggest cause of this...more
On January 16, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed S332 (the act), making New Jersey the first state in 2024 to enact a comprehensive privacy law. Several other states are currently considering similar comprehensive...more
“At colleges and universities across the nation, leaders agree that the key to ensuring business continuity and sustainability is cyber resilience.” Why this is important: As highlighted in previous editions of The...more
Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 11 (November, 2023) The American Hospital Association (AHA) is urging federal lawmakers to intervene with the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) so that hospitals and health systems can...more
Resilience issued its Midyear 2023 Claims Report, which is well worth the read. In addition to commenting on the impact of the MOVEit incident, some of the key findings include...more
Beginning October 12, 2023, the UK-U.S. Data Bridge will allow UK companies to transfer personal data to the United States using the new EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework....more
In 1992, Singapore banned the sale of all chewing gum. But if you owned a cornerstore in the U.S. and a Singaporean tourist came to visit your business, there would be nothing to stop you from selling them a pack of gum—in...more