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Get caught up with the Cybersecurity Docket News Wire for March 28, 2019.
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You would think that if a company was found both by the relevant regulatory authorities and by the courts to have taken all reasonable steps to protect personal data, it would have a complete answer to a data breach claim. Not so. That was the surprising (to some) outcome of a recent Court of Appeal […]
Get caught up with the Cybersecurity Docket News Wire for March 21, 2019.
Lisa Monaco, a veteran official of Washington’s highest levels, is joining O’Melveny & Myers as partner and co-chair of the firm’s data security and privacy group. via Ex-Obama Official Lisa Monaco Joins O’Melveny as Data Security and Privacy Co-Chair | National Law Journal.
Transition year or not, early numbers for the GDPR make clear that the policy has been a success as a breach notification law, but largely a failure when it comes to imposing fines on companies that fail to adequately protect their customers’ data. At the panel discussion, Stephen Eckersley, the head of enforcement at the […]
Morrison & Foerster has hired the head of Proskauer’s privacy & cybersecurity group to join its growing privacy and data security practice. Kristen Mathews, a veteran of cybersecurity law, has joined MoFo as a partner in its New York office. Her move is the latest in a string of recent lateral hires in that office— […]
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The number of data breaches increased more than 400 percent in 2018 exposing almost 15 billion records, according to the identity intelligence company 4iQ. The company’s annual report confirmed 12,440 new breaches, a 424 percent increase compared to 2017, and of the 14.9 billion records compromised, 3.6 billion were confirmed real and exposed for the […]
Get caught up with the Cybersecurity Docket News Wire for March 13, 2019.
The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) series opened the doors to the world of cybercrime – now, this dataset and caseload analysis has been refocused on the role of the insider – forming the Verizon Insider Threat Report. Twenty percent of cybersecurity incidents and 15 percent of the data breaches investigated within the Verizon […]
Cybersecurity articles are notoriously unpopular with financial advisers compared with other industry news, unless it’s something drastic like Voya’s recent slip-up exposing advisers’ Social Security numbers on its website. When it comes to financial technology, advisers are more likely to peruse something like T3’s 2019 Software Survey than they are to learn about how cybersecurity […]