No Password Required: USF Cybercrime Professor, Former Federal Agent, and Vintage Computer Archivist
2023 DSIR Deeper Dive: How International and Domestic Regulatory Enforcement Spotlights the Information Governance Tensions Between ‘There’ and ‘Here’ and Between ‘Keep’ and ‘Delete’
Marketing Minute with NP Strategy (Video): How to Respond to a Cyber Security Breach
Cybersecurity in Video Games & Esports
2023 DSIR Deeper Dive: State Privacy and Data Collection
Digital Planning Podcast Episode: When Cyber Attacks Hit Home
2023 DSIR Report Deeper Dive into the Data
Cybersecurity: What Healthcare Providers Need to Know
2022 DSIR Deeper Dive: OCR’s Right of Access Initiative
Hot Topics: Risk Management for Cybersecurity
2022 DSIR Report Deeper Dive: The Expanding Landscape of State Data Privacy Laws
Can Cyber Investigations Be Canned? - Unauthorized Access Podcast
2022 DSIR Report Deeper Dive: Personal Data Deletion
Panel Pursuit: The Ins and Outs of Becoming a Preferred Panel Vendor - Unauthorized Access Podcast
Get Me Off This Ride: Understanding the Emotional Rollercoaster After a Ransomware Attack - Unauthorized Access Podcast
2022 DSIR Report Deeper Dive: FTC
2022 DSIR Report Deeper Dive: Forensics
2022 DSIR Deeper Dive: Vendor Incidents
Dark Web Monitoring - Unauthorized Access Podcast
Unauthorized Access: An Inside Look at Incident Response
The HHS Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation (WPS) are notifying 946,801 people whose protected health information or other personally identifiable information...more
At the recent In-House Counsel Seminar, three Ward and Smith attorneys presented a realistic role play response to an incidence of wire fraud, addressing red flags associated with fraudulent communications, corporate incident...more
The FCC has significantly expanded telecommunications carriers’ data breach notification and reporting obligations. Telecommunications carriers, including Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services, and telecommunications...more
Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 10 (October, 2023) Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals will pay California $49 million to resolve allegations that they unlawfully disposed of hazardous waste,...more
Recent ransomware attacks against U.S. critical infrastructure, which includes the energy sector’s production of oil and natural gas, and other sources of electricity and power, have shed a spotlight on the importance of...more
The Federal Bureau of Investigations Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) recently issued a public service announcement warning private companies about the increasing numbers of ransomware attacks affecting private industry....more
Recently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a warning t U.S. consumers that Russian hackers (dubbed Sofacy and a/k/a Fancy Brear and APT28, and believed to be backed by the Russian government) had compromised...more
The best way for a company to handle a data breach is to be prepared. As we discuss in our data breach readiness handbook, preparation includes, among other things, drafting an incident response plan, reviewing...more
What should companies do when ransomware hits? The FBI says: (a) report it to law enforcement and (b) do not pay the ransom. Given the recent onslaught in ransomware attacks—such as a 2016 variant that compromised an...more