Privacy Plus+ News
Stay informed with our latest insights on privacy and technology trends, along with key updates from our firm.
“Public Insecurity:” The Special Vulnerability of Public Facilities
This week, let’s focus on the ransomware attacks on state and local governments and consider some risk-reducing cybersecurity measures.
SEC Adopts New Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules for Public Companies
This week, let’s address the SEC’s recently adopted rules to enhance and standardize disclosures regarding cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and incidents by public companies. We’ll look at the mechanics, summarize the changes, highlight effective dates, and offer some thoughts.
Top 5 Questions for Directors Re: Cyber Governance
This week, let’s focus on effective cyber governance by the board of directors, and propose some questions that every director should ask to protect themselves and their organizations from cyber risk and personal liability.
Top 5 Questions Every CISO Should Ask
This week, let’s consider some questions that every Chief Information Security Officer should ask to protect themselves and their organizations from cyber risk and personal liability.
SolarWinds Executives May Face Personal Liability as SEC Issues Wells Notices
This week, executive cyber-liability issues continue to emerge, and here, we’re covering the related latest news in connection with the SolarWinds hack.
A Huge Software Supply Chain Attack
This week, let’s address what may be the biggest cybersecurity news of the year — the huge supply chain attack that is happening now and what your organization should do to respond.
Don’t Forget Privacy in M&A Due Diligence
This week, let’s focus on data as a source of value (or liability) in transactions by presenting this important reminder: Don’t forget privacy in M&A due diligence (and don’t conflate privacy with cybersecurity).
OCC Requires Board Oversight of Cyber Risk
This week, let’s consider OCC’s consent order against Capital One, and particularly its requirement for board management and oversight of cyber risk.
NY-DFS and SEC Show Teeth, but will they Bite?
This week, let’s consider the investigations and class actions currently faced by First American Financial Corp and whether all these charges will be material from a financial perspective.
Hardening the Industrial Internet of Things
This week, we consider privacy and security broadly across the consumer and industrial Internet of Things, and offer some suggestions about hardening your organization’s privacy and security posture.
Freezing Facial Recognition – Let’s Revisit
This week, we re-visit and repeat our May 25th call to freeze face-recognition (and other advanced biometric) technologies as we highlight recent news reflecting how the chorus is growing louder in demanding a moratorium on such technologies.