On January 14-15, Kim Peretti and Jim Harvey, co-chairs of the firm’s Security Incident Management & Response team, will participate as speakers in the Cybersecurity Law & Policy In-House Summit. The Cybersecurity Law & Policy In-House Summit will provide up-to-date and practical strategies to proactively fortify cyber defenses and deliver best practices to mitigate liability and […]
Board Governance & Cyber Risk Management
FTC Denies LabMD’s Motions to Stay Pending Administrative Action
In the ongoing Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) proceeding against LabMD, Inc. (“Lab MD”), the FTC recently denied LabMD’s attempts to stay the proceeding pending the outcome of the company’s separate requests for injunctive relief pending before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and petition for review before the U.S. Court of Appeals for […]
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 […]
FTC Chairwoman Reiterates Support for National Data Breach Law with FTC Enforcement Powers
At the National Consumers League Conference on identity theft, held on December 12, 2013 in Washington, D.C., Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) Chairwoman Edith Ramirez pushed for a federal data breach law featuring the FTC as the “enforcer.” Chairwoman Ramirez engaged in a keynote discussion with former FTC Chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras and made her position […]
Congress Considers Cybersecurity Bills
Earlier last week, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) introduced H.R. 3696, a bill to amend the Homeland Security Act to make certain improvements regarding cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection. The committee circulated the draft earlier this year, and had planned to mark up the bill when the Edward Snowden revelations became public. The bill […]