Data Privacy and Cybersecurity

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Is Proactive Cybersecurity Worth the Cost for Small and Midsized Businesses?

When it comes to cybersecurity, the most important choice business leaders face is determining which risks to address proactively, with assessments, workforce training, policy preparation, […]

Time For a Post-Quantum Risk Analysis

Time For a Post-Quantum Risk Analysis

Three federal agencies just combined resources to issue a fact sheet about the impact of “potentially adversarial, cryptanalytically relevant quantum computer capabilities.” In English, that […]

Will Governments Step In When Cyber-Insurance Isn’t Available?

Will Governments Step In When Cyber-Insurance Isn’t Available?

Premiums for cyber insurance rose almost 50 percent in 2022, but they aren’t keeping up with the cost of attacks. The price of the cybersecurity […]

Government Contractor the Victim of Monster Data Breach

Government Contractor the Victim of Monster Data Breach

The Social Security numbers, birth dates, driver’s license numbers, health insurance claims, medical history notes, prescription information and other PII of 612,000 Medicare beneficiaries were […]

Takeaways From the SEC’s Cybersecurity Risk Management Report

Takeaways From the SEC’s Cybersecurity Risk Management Report

The SEC finalized its disclosure rules for cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and incidents on July 26th. A proposed requirement that all boards of publicly-traded […]

Executives Iffy About Data Privacy Preparedness

Executives Iffy About Data Privacy Preparedness

Corporate readiness for new data privacy requirements in the U.S., U.K., and the EU, and challenges posed by AI, are the topics of a survey […]

Top AI Companies Launch New Industry Group to Promote Safe AI Development

Top AI Companies Launch New Industry Group to Promote Safe AI Development

The world’s top artificial intelligence companies are launching a new industry body to work with policymakers and researchers on ways to regulate the development of […]

Delayed Data Breach Disclosure Spawns Big Class Action

Delayed Data Breach Disclosure Spawns Big Class Action

On or about March 12, the well-named cybercrime gang Money Message struck PharMerica, a pharmacy company that services more than 3,100 long-term care and other […]

First the Attack, Then the Class Action

First the Attack, Then the Class Action

Cyberattacks are more frequent and more sophisticated. That is common knowledge, but the fact that class action lawsuits following a data breach are increasing is […]

SolarWinds Cyberattack Fallout: Wells Notices For CFO and CIO

SolarWinds Cyberattack Fallout: Wells Notices For CFO and CISO

In an SEC filing, business software company SolarWinds says that current and former executives, including its CFO and CISO, received notices that they may be […]