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Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: November 2024

Change Healthcare Inc. has amended its initial breach report to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to state that 100 million individuals were impacted by its mammoth ransomware attack and breach. However, as of Oct. 24,...more

Clark Hill PLC

The Learned Concierge - June 2024, Vol. 9

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The Learned Concierge - Welcome to your monthly legal insights on the trends impacting the Retail, Hospitality, and Food & Beverage Industries....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Cybersecurity Labeling Program to Increase Transparency of IoT Device Security

In response to a constantly-evolving cyber threat landscape, the Biden Administration recently announced the launch of a new cybersecurity labeling program – the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark program – in an effort to enhance...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

DHS Publishes Long-Awaited Final Rule on Controlled Unclassified Information

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On June 21, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a final rule to implement security measures that safeguard controlled unclassified information (CUI) from unauthorized access and disclosure and improve incident...more

NAVEX

4 Things to Know About Updated NIST 800-53 Standards

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[author: Matt Kelly] In September 2020 the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) unveiled the fifth version of its cybersecurity standard formally known as SP 800-53, “Security and Privacy Controls for...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - August 2019

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the European Parliament's report on whether and how the use of blockchain technology can comply with the General Data Protection Regulation, as well as...more

Blank Rome LLP

Department of Veterans Affairs Updates Pharmaceutical Federal Schedule Supply

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The Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”) National Acquisition Center (“NAC”), which administers the VA Federal Supply Schedule (“FSS”) Program, has already had a busy year. Among other procurement streamlining activities,...more

Kilpatrick

D.C. District Court Expands Government Contractors’ Exposure to Consumer Data Breach Class Actions

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The United States District Court for the District of Columbia recently endorsed private citizens bringing data breach claims directly against a government contractor where the contractor failed adequately to safeguard the...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Are Your Federal Contractor Employees Required To Have Privacy Training?

The Federal Acquisition Regulations were recently updated to include a requirement that certain federal contractors provide privacy training to some of their employees. The training obligation does not apply to all employees...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

OPM data breach update–$133 million contract awarded to vendor

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Defense Department announced this week that a Portland, OR based vendor has been selected to assist with breach notification and credit assistance for the almost 22 million...more

King & Spalding

OPM Faces Another Class Action For The Theft Of Data Affecting 21.5 Million Current, Former And Prospective Government Employees

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On August 14, 2015, a class action was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of about 21.5 million federal employees, contractors, and job applicants whose personal information was...more

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