In an effort to continue to capture ongoing and new business, vendors may be opening themselves up to liability due to poorly drafted contracts with companies. In addition, in a rush by companies to have data shifted to the cloud, privacy concerns may be dangerously minimized.

It is difficult to deny that data security and privacy issues are now at the forefront of business concerns. Many businesses are now highly attuned to the risks of exposing their own or their clients’ protected information due to well-publicized massive hacks of medical or consumer information over the past several years. These businesses are now taking very aggressive steps to limit the risk of hacks, malware, ransomware and other intrusions into their own systems.

Originally published in in Cybersecurity Law & Strategy, September 2017.