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Alysa Austin

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About Alysa Austin

Alysa Austin is a senior associate on Alston & Bird’s Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy team. She provides security, privacy, and compliance counseling to clients across a variety of industries including the financial services, health care, communications, retail, and emerging tech sectors.

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Rhode Island’s New Cybersecurity Law for Nonbank Financial Institutions

August 22, 2025 By Kim Peretti, Alysa Austin, Ashley Miller and Lance Taubin

Rhode Island has enacted Senate Bill 603 (SB603), effective July 2, 2025, establishing a comprehensive cybersecurity framework for nonbank financial institutions licensed by the state’s Department of Business Regulation (DBR). Although SB603 is closely modeled after the New York Department of Financial Services’ (NYDFS) Cybersecurity Regulation, 23 NYCRR Part 500 (Part 500), SB603 introduces several […]

Filed Under: Cybersecurity, Insurance Data Security

CISA and FBI Joint Update on Scattered Spider: Evolving Threats and Mitigation Guidance

August 11, 2025 By Kim Peretti and Alysa Austin

The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and international partners issued an updated advisory on July 29, 2025, highlighting the evolving tactics, techniques, and procedures (TPPs) of the cybercriminal group Scattered Spider. First identified in 2023, this group is notorious for targeting large enterprises and their contracted IT help desks, […]

Filed Under: Advisories, Cyber Risk, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Ransomware

Last Minute Biden Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence Executive Orders Survive Initial Trump Revocations

January 25, 2025 By Kim Peretti, Kate Hanniford, Daniel Felz, Alysa Austin and Andrew Rice

In the final week of the Biden Administration’s term in office, former President Biden issued two high profile executive orders that could have significant ramifications for the cybersecurity and technology industries. The first, issued on January 14, 2025, is an “Executive Order on Advancing United States Leadership in Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure” (the “AI Infrastructure Order”). […]

Filed Under: Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Data Security, Regulation Tagged With: AI, Cybersecurity, Executive Order, Regulations

New York Amends Data Breach Notification Law with Immediate Implications

January 6, 2025 By Kim Peretti and Alysa Austin

In late December 2024, the New York Governor signed two bills (S2659B and S2376B) amending the state’s data breach notification law (N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law § 899-aa), to expand the definition of reportable personal information and impose new covered entity reporting obligations in the event of a data breach. Effective immediately, companies will have 30 […]

Filed Under: Data Breach, Data Security, New York, New York, NYDFS, Privacy

Ransomware Activity Trends in Q2 2024

September 19, 2024 By Kim Peretti and Alysa Austin

Ransomware attacks are hitting record highs in 2024 and show no sign of slowing down as new criminal groups enter the scene and employ a variety of evolving tactics. This post identifies key highlights of ransomware activity in 2024 so far. Multiple recent security reports have reported a significant increase in ransomware attacks claimed by […]

Filed Under: Cyber Risk, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Ransomware

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