Data Privacy and Cybersecurity
The SEC has reached a $3 million settlement with Blackbaud, a client relationship company for non-profits, over allegations that it both dissembled in SEC filings […]
So-called social engineering attacks – including Phishing, Vishing/Smishing, Baiting, “Quid Pro Quo,” and Pretexting – don’t involve a technical breach in the engineering sense. Rather […]
Nathaniel Cole, writing in Network Assured, highlights statistics that illustrate the state of the cybersecurity insurance market, among them: In a 2022 survey, only 19 […]
Over 4 percent of employees have been submitting sensitive business data and privacy-protected information to large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, raising concerns that […]
When it comes to data breaches, there are big differences between organizations and individuals regarding security. Organizations are usually well-informed about the risks and may […]
The familiar breach scenario involves a bad-actor third party that steals information that it can monetize, or locks up a company’s computer systems pending a […]
The era of individual hackers is over. Now the dominant threat comes from sophisticated organizations that use tools like AI and machine learning to grow […]
The Paul Weiss firm has published a survey of economic sanctions and anti-money laundering trends. The big story in both areas last year was the […]
Ankur Sheth writes about how cybersecurity risk impacts private equity in a deal cycle. Risk managers, especially those at companies contemplating mergers and acquisitions, can […]
According to a senior FBI official, healthcare was the number one target for ransomware attacks last year, followed by manufacturing and government, including schools. The […]
