Employee security awareness training is a best practice and a “reasonable safeguard” for protecting the privacy and security of an organization’s sensitive data. The list of data privacy and cybersecurity laws mandating...more
On March 21, 2020, companies will need to comply with yet another data privacy and security law when the New York Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act ("NY SHIELD Act") takes effect. The SHIELD Act is unique in...more
As of January 1, 2020, California became the first state to permit residents whose personal information is exposed in a data breach to seek statutory damages between $100-$750 per incident, even in the absence of any actual...more