Law Brief®: Rich Schoenstein and Annmarie Giblin Discuss Cyber Law
Cracking the Code: Getting the Most Out of Your Cyber Insurance Policy
Cybersecurity Threats Facing Food and Agribusiness Companies & the Preparation and Protection Safeguards to Help Mitigate Them
Cyber Insurance - An Essential Component to Your Business
London’s Nation-State Attack Exclusion: Game Changer For The Cyber Insurance Market or An Opportunity For Competition Within the Market?
The Significance of Operational Technology in Cyber Insurance Underwriting – Part 2
The Downstream Impact of Ransomware on Cyber Insurance Underwriting – Part 1
Coverage Considerations for Ransomware & Cyber Attacks
Cyber Insurance Changes in the Aftermath of Log4j
Cyberside Chats: There is a war in Europe. What does that mean for your cyber insurance policy?
How Patching log4J Can Mitigate Regulatory and Insurance Issues
Wait, that’s covered? Insurability of Fines and Penalties Flowing From a Cybersecurity Breach
Takeaways From Recent Claims Against Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook – Mitigating the Heightened Risk of Privacy Suits Against Individual Directors and Officers
No Password Required: A Cyber Practice Leader and Natural Optimist Who Believes Every Day Is the Best Day
Ransomware and Cyber Insurance: The good, the bad, and why your insurance data is a target for hackers (with Jacob Ingerslev)
Debra Geroux and Scott Wrobel on Responding to Data Breaches
Cyber Insurance Coverage Market: A House of Cards or Temporary Plateau?
NGE On Demand: Insurance and Indemnity Issues for Family Offices with Angela Elbert
Nota Bene Episode 114: The New Global Business of Cyberattack, from Ransomware to a Now-Ubiquitous State of Breach with Kari Rollins
The Ransomware Attack Part 2 – How To Respond When The Enemy Overcomes The Gates
The decision to integrate Generative AI (“GAI”) into an organization is one that occupies significant space these days in many corporate board rooms. In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, the adoption of GAI...more
Managing these risks at a single company should be straightforward. Executives and CISOs may be personally held accountable for cyber failings, negligence, breaches, and inadequate disclosure around cyber vulnerabilities and...more
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It goes without saying that cybersecurity is a top D&O liability concern for organizations today. According to Willis Towers Watson’s 2018 Management Liability (Directors and Officers) U.S. Survey, respondents cited cyber...more
Businesses are increasingly purchasing dedicated cyber insurance policies to address their cyber and data security exposures. To date, however, many of the judicial decisions addressing insurance for cyber exposures have done...more
For many D&O insurers, the risk of exposure posed by cybersecurity incidents involving their insureds has been unclear at best. Cybersecurity incidents, and the corresponding shareholder claims that follow, pose unique and...more
Scarcely a day goes by without news headlines reporting yet another data breach or cyber crime incident, which can have devastating consequences for any business in terms of both reputation and balance sheet. A cyber...more
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A recent Investment News article highlighted a burgeoning market for financial advisors looking to protect their practices; namely, data breach insurance. Although such insurance seems like a great idea, you need to exercise...more
It has been said that there are two types of companies in the world – those that have been hacked, and those that do not yet know they have been hacked. While perhaps an overstatement, it seems that every day, another company...more
On October 12, 2015, Nossaman and UC Irvine hosted a Cyber Symposium at the City Club in Los Angeles. The event included four panels of Nossaman lawyers, UCI professors, and private professionals who are experts in the areas...more
Five Lessons Health Care Companies Should Learn From Cyberattacks - The American health care industry is under attack by sophisticated hackers seeking access to electronic medical records. Since January, three health...more
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It’s a familiar pattern. First, new risks inspire legislation and regulations that impose new penalties. Next, insurers and policyholders fight over whether the new liabilities are covered under traditional liability...more
With data breaches affecting companies across virtually every industry, cyber security has remained front page news. Lawsuits brought by aggrieved consumers and financial institutions against companies that have suffered data...more
Target’s $19 million settlement with MasterCard underscores very significant sources of potential exposure that often follow a data breach incident. In the wake of any significant breach involving payment cards, such as the...more
With major data breaches again making news, it is important for corporate policyholders to keep abreast of insurance developments in this emerging and fast-moving area. In this update, we provide some thoughts on cyber...more
Recent examples of data breaches resulting in invasion of privacy lawsuits abound. Target and other retailers, financial services companies and other businesses have had their internal data systems breached and consumers’...more
The last installment in our series – “Coverage for Privacy Violations” - Part 5 of 5: Coverage For Privacy Violations: As we previously noted, recent SEC actions on the topic of cybersecurity indicates...more