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Senate Passes Significant Cyber Bill Requiring Cyber Incident Reporting

March 3, 2022 By Kim Peretti and Kristen Bartolotta

The Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act of 2022, a bill that narrowly failed to become law last year, was passed in the Senate on Tuesday, March 1 as a package of cybersecurity measures that would require operators of critical infrastructure and federal civilian agencies to report cyber incidents to the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and […]

Filed Under: Cybersecurity, Data Breach, Data Protection, Data Security, Legislation, National Security, Ransomware, Regulation Tagged With: cybersecurity, Data Breach Notification, Data Protection, ransomware, Senate, US Congress

Incomplete Cybersecurity Compliance Disclosures May Support Fraud Claim Under the False Claims Act, Federal Court Holds

February 7, 2022 By Kim Peretti, Kellen Dwyer and Jody Hunt

At the heels of a recent Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative related to cybersecurity practices and the False Claims Act (FCA), a cybersecurity-related FCA case has survived a motion for summary judgment, teeing up a trial to determine if the defendants’ cybersecurity compliance disclosures were materially incomplete and if any misstatements were knowingly made. On February 1, […]

Filed Under: Cybersecurity, Data Protection, Data Security, FCA Tagged With: Compliance, cybersecurity, Data Protection, False Claims Act

SEC Proposed Rule Will Require Private Funds to Report Certain Cyber Events

January 31, 2022 By Kate Hanniford and Alysa Austin

On January 26, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed new rules to enhance hedge fund and private fund disclosure requirements and increase regulators’ visibility into the private funds industry. The proposed rules would amend the SEC’s Form PF, the confidential reporting form by which private funds disclose regulatory assets to the SEC, […]

Filed Under: Cyber Risk, Cybersecurity, Enforcement Tagged With: cybersecurity, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, SEC

CISA Releases Warning of Destructive Malware Targeting Ukrainian Organizations

January 18, 2022 By Kim Peretti, Kellen Dwyer and Lance Taubin

On January 16, 2022, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a warning regarding destructive malware targeting Ukrainian organizations, including Ukrainian government agencies. The malware was found in multiple government, non-profit, and information technology organizations, all based in Ukraine. CISA’s warning comes on the heels of a separate targeted attack […]

Filed Under: Cybersecurity, International, Russia

EDPB Issues New Guidance for Assessing Personal Data Breaches under the EU GDPR

January 10, 2022 By Paul Greaves and Wim Nauwelaerts

On Monday, 3 January 2022, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) published the finalized version of its regulatory guidance entitled “Examples regarding Personal Data Breach Notification” (the “Guidelines”), following a public consultation on a draft set of guidelines in 2021. The finalized Guidelines are a practice-oriented, and case-based set of examples that leverage the experiences […]

Filed Under: Cybersecurity, Data Breach, Data Protection, Data Security, Enforcement, Privacy Tagged With: Data Breach Notification, Data Protection, EU Data Protection, EU Privacy, EU Regulation, European Union (EU), Regulatory Enforcement

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