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Jim Harvey to Speak at National Association of Corporate Directors Program on Mitigating Cybersecurity Risks

April 14, 2014 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

Jim Harvey, co-chair of the firm’s Privacy & Data Security practice and the Security Incident Management and Response Team, will be a featured speaker during an April 16 program sponsored by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) titled, “Mitigating Cyber Security Threats: How the Attackers, Their Objectives, Their Methods Keep Changing.” Cyber security threats and […]

Filed Under: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Data Protection, Events, Security Breach

Kentucky Becomes 47th State To Require Data Breach Notification; Adds Restrictions on use of “Student Data”

April 14, 2014 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear signed a data breach notification bill on April 10, adding Kentucky to the ranks of U.S. states requiring notice to individuals in the event of a data breach and leaving Alabama, New Mexico and South Dakota as the only states that do not require such notice. Kentucky’s data breach notification bill (HB […]

Filed Under: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Data Protection, Events

DOJ and FTC Issue Antitrust Policy Statement on Cybersecurity Information Sharing

April 11, 2014 By Maki DePalo

On April 10, 2014, The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) (collectively, the “Agencies”) issued a policy statement on the sharing of cybersecurity information. The policy statement indicates that the Agencies share the President’s view that “cyber threat is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face […]

Filed Under: Cybersecurity, Data Protection, Data Security, Privacy

NIST releases final Cybersecurity Framework

February 13, 2014 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) has released the final version of the much-anticipated Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (the “Framework”). The Framework was developed by NIST at the direction of President Obama’s February 12, 2013, Executive Order 13636, “Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity” (the “Executive Order”). The Framework largely retains the structure […]

Filed Under: Cyber Risk, Cybersecurity, Data Protection, Data Security, Privacy, Regulation Tagged With: Cybersecurity Executive Order, Department of Commerce (DOC), National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), The White House

FTC Settles With Children’s Entertainment Company Over Safe Harbor Lapse

February 13, 2014 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

February 11, 2014 – The FTC today announced a proposed settlement with Fantage.com Inc., a children’s online entertainment company that allegedly misrepresented its adherence to the U.S.-European Union Safe Harbor Framework (the “Framework”).  According to the FTC’s complaint, Fantage made statements in the privacy policy its website that it followed the privacy principles of the Framework, when […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, International, Privacy Tagged With: European Union (EU), Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

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