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Proactive Defense: A Step-by-Step Guide To Assessing Your Organization's Cyber Risk

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In the continuously evolving landscape of cyber threats, organizations must be proactive in identifying and mitigating potential risks to their digital assets and operations. A critical step in building cyber resilience is...more

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Key Insights for School District Leaders

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It’s not getting any easier. In fact, “for K-12 schools, cyber incidents are so prevalent that, on average, there is more than one incident per school day.” While high-profile cyber threats like ransomware and data...more

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Wire-Fraud, Data Breach, and Phishing: A Live Action Role Play for In House Counsel

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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

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Data Breaches up 72% From Record High: Cyber Incident Readiness Must be Top of Mind

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“Protect your data! Breaches are on the rise!” These warnings seem to be everywhere – and rightfully so. Threat actors are sophisticated and new breach trends are constantly materializing. Awareness is no longer enough. It...more

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Cybersecurity in Video Games & Esports

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In this episode of “Lawyers With Game,” host Darius Gambino from Saul Ewing’s Video Gaming and Esports Practice chats with colleagues Sandy Bilus and Evan Foster from Saul Ewing’s Cybersecurity & Privacy group about data...more

BakerHostetler

Deeper Dive into the Data

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Every year, BakerHostetler collects and analyzes various metrics about the incident response matters we handle. In 2022, we handled over 1,160 incidents. The most striking trends we saw across those incidents were an overall...more

Tenace

What to Do After a Data Breach: Surviving the First 24 Hours

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Today data breaches are a costly and ever-present danger for businesses in both the public and private sector. Each year, the total number of reported breaches grows 5-10% over the previous year, with over 22 billion records...more

Goldberg Segalla

Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts: The Scourge That Is Business Email Compromise

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In June 2014, the CEO of Omaha-based Scoular Company sent a series of emails to his company’s controller to let him know that the company was in negotiations to buy a Chinese company. The emails highlighted the sensitivity of...more

Foley Hoag LLP

[Webinar] How to Prevent and Respond to Business Email Compromises - April 26th, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm ET

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Please join us for a discussion and Q&A regarding the growing threat of business email compromises (a.k.a. man-in-the-middle attacks). Attorneys Chris Hart and Yoni Bard, litigators with experience in privacy matters and...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

HHS Report Warns of EMR and EHR Security Risks

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) recently issued a report entitled “Electronic Medical Records in Healthcare” that discussed security risks applicable to...more

NAVEX

Building a Better Response for Ransomware

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You almost can’t blame cyber criminals for their relentless barrage of ransomware attacks against the corporate world. From their perspective, it’s easy money. Corporations face a much more frustrating calculus. You can...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 1. Privacy Briefs: January 2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 1 (January, 2022) - New Jersey issued its third settlement in three months on state-level health care privacy and security laws, announcing that three cancer care providers would adopt new...more

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Sounds Phishy – The Rise of Vishing Scams

Broad awareness has been made about cyberattacks in the form of phishing that typically use email messages to lure victims into divulging sensitive information or opening a link that allows malware to infiltrate their device....more

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Recent Data Breach at Twitch Exposes Danger for All Businesses

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This fall has been a busy season for privacy professionals. From public education institutions and hospitals, to online broadcast and streaming platforms, we’ve seen a surge of data breaches that coincides with the upcoming...more

McDermott Will & Emery

[Webinar] Demystifying Cybersecurity: Practical Considerations For Businesses - December 8th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CST

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Ransomware! Phishing! Zero Trust! Endpoint detection! The buzzwords and fearmongering fly when it comes to cybersecurity, but there are practical business considerations that have to be accounted for when developing a...more

Fisher Phillips

In the World of Ransomware Attacks, Déjà Vu Seems to be the New Normal for Employers

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Pick the date and news publication. After a few flips of the pages (or a scroll of the mouse), you’ll no doubt find an article about “ABC Company” reeling from a ransomware attack. This proliferation of cyberattacks is all...more

Burr & Forman

Business Exposure to Internet Crime

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Each year, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (“IC3”) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation publishes its Internet Crime Report.  The IC3’s 2020 Internet Crime Report includes startling information about the continuing...more

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Debra Geroux and Scott Wrobel on Responding to Data Breaches

When a data breach occurs, one step is often overlooked in the rush to remediate: preserving as much of the data logs and backups as possible That’s a mistake, say Debra Geroux, Shareholder at Butzel Long and Scott Wrobel,...more

Woods Rogers

Colonial Pipeline – A Ransomware Attack Hits Close To Home

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If you had never heard of the Colonial Pipeline Company before this week, chances are that you have heard about it now.  Sitting in your car waiting in long lines to fill up at your local gas station hoping they don’t run out...more

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Managing Data Privacy in the COVID-19 Environment – Navigating the Challenges of a Pandemic in 2021

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Last year, the COVID-19 pandemic brought about a global market disruption across multiple industries, and manufacturers expect the pandemic to continue to affect the automotive industry through 2021. The pandemic has not...more

Fisher Phillips

Not If But When: Cybercrime Targets Telework

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As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of Americans have deserted the physical workplace. Modern technology and remote access capabilities have made it possible to transform almost any job to a telework position. As...more

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Secure WFH: Security Tips for Working from Home During COVID-19

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Among the many changes COVID-19 has brought, one far-reaching change for employers has been transitioning their workforces to work from home wherever possible. Unfortunately, there has been a rise in phishing and hacking...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Cybersecurity Challenges and Incident Response Preparedness During the Coronavirus Pandemic

The spread of the novel coronavirus has upended Americans’ lives in a matter of months. While life outside has ground to a standstill in many regions of the country, much of corporate America is meeting the unique challenges...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

[Webinar] Cyber Hygiene: Practical Cybersecurity Considerations During COVID-19 - March 31st, 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm ET

The novel coronavirus has forced large segments of the workforce into remote environments for the foreseeable future, posing an array of risks and considerations for in-house counsel and security professionals. Rapid and...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Natural Gas Compressor Facility Shut Down After Ransomware Attack

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced this week that a ransomware attack shut down a natural gas compressor facility for two days. While in the network, the attacker deployed software trying to “identify...more

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