On April 29, 2015, the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division will host a cybersecurity industry roundtable on data breaches. The event, which will include audience question and answer sessions, will focus on a range of recent industry developments. The event will feature a discussion of cybersecurity from the national security perspective by John P. Carlin, […]
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Retail Breaches: Investigating Payment Card Breaches
“Challenges in Conducting Breach Investigations: Part 2,” was published in April 2013 by Law360, however, given the recent spate of retail breaches involving payment cards, it is highly relevant to entities experiencing these types of incidents. The article describes some of the challenges to conducting breach investigations in response to increasingly sophisticated attacks. In particular, […]
NIST’s Preliminary Cybersecurity Framework Could Have Broad Implications for Critical, Non-Critical Infrastructure Alike
On October 22, 2013, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released its Preliminary Cybersecurity Framework (“Framework”), marking one of the final steps in creating the “voluntary” Framework envisioned in an Obama Administration Executive Order (EO) issued earlier this year. That EO, which was designed to strengthen the cybersecurity of the United States’ critical […]
New European Data Breach Rules for Telcos and ISPs
On August 25, 2013, a new European Regulation came into effect that changed and expanded upon the breach notification procedures set forth in the E-Privacy Directive (2002/58/EC). The Regulation outlines two independent notification obligations: (1) notification to the relevant national authority within 24 hours after detection of a personal breach where feasible; and (2) notification […]