On May 17, 2013, Kim Peretti will serve as planning chair and Todd McClelland will be a featured speaker in the program entitled “The Top Five Data Security Threats in 2013: Knowing and Understanding the Legal Risks,” by ALI-CLE. Data security remains the elephant in the room for many corporate legal departments, law firms and outside counsel. […]
FERC Seeks To Mandate Electric Utilities Implement Specific Cybersecurity Protections
In the newly proposed version of the Critical Infrastructure Protection (“CIP”) Reliability Standards, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) is seeking, for the first time, to create mandatory cybersecurity protections for the bulk electric system (“BES”), which includes electric utilities. The new standards would classify each BES Cyber System as Low, Medium or High Impact […]
Eric Shimp Published in BEERG Global Labor Newsletter
Eric Shimp, a Policy Advisor at Alston & Bird, recently published “Data Protection: Data privacy in the Transatlantic Trade agreement? US-EU ponder the way forward” in the most recent version of the BEERG Global Labor Newsletter. As the US approaches the launch of negotiations toward a free trade agreement with the European Union, data privacy […]
HIPAA, Mental Health, and the National Instant Criminal Background Check System
In the aftermath of such incidents as the shootings at Virginia Tech and Newtown, HHS published guidance to remind covered entities that health care providers may, consistent with the HIPAA Privacy Rule, disclose protected health information (PHI), including from mental health records, to warn that persons may be at risk of harm because of a […]
Cyber Alert: Breach Investigations, Part 2 – Understanding the Role of the PFI in Payment Card Breaches – Law360 Article by Kim Peretti
This article is the second in a four-part series describing some of the challenges to conducting breach investigations in response to increasingly sophisticated attacks. In Part 1, entitled Right-Sizing the Data Breach Investigation and published with Law360 on March 26, 2013, we provided an overview of the evolving advanced cyber threat landscape and the three […]