Kim Peretti, partner and co-chair of Alston & Bird’s Cybersecurity Preparedness & Response Team, will speak at “The Exchange” Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Forum in Washington, DC from November 4-5. The forum is being presented by Today’s General Counsel Institute. Kim will be presenting on the topic “Breach Response: What Do I Do Now?” The session will […]
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Kim Peretti Presents at FCC Cybersecurity Forum
Kim Peretti, partner and co-chair of Alston & Bird’s Cybersecurity Preparedness & Response Team, was a featured speaker at the Cybersecurity Forum for Independent and Executive Branch Regulators, organized by the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Reserve Board on October 16. The Forum, which was held at FCC headquarters in Washington, D.C., focused on primary issues […]
Swire on Data Transfers After Schrems
Peter Swire, Alston & Bird Senior Counsel and Georgia Institute of Technology Scheller College of Business professor, has published an article on the path forward for E.U. / U.S. data transfers. Swire’s article offers a historical perspective on the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) recent decision in Schrems. Schrems invalidated the Safe Harbor framework relied […]
Alston & Bird to Host Live Program and Webinar on National Security, Espionage, and Data Breaches
On October 29, Alston & Bird’s Cybersecurity Preparedness & Response Team will host a live program and webinar called National Security, Cyber Espionage and “Bulk PII” Breaches in our Washington, DC office. The program will examine the recent phenomenon of allegedly state-sponsored actors executing major cyber-attacks specifically targeting large databases of personal data for espionage […]
Swire Challenges Factual Basis of Schrems Decision
In an article published today, Senior Counsel Peter Swire challenges the factual basis for the Advocate General’s recent opinion in the so-called “Schrems case” against the E.U.-U.S. Safe Harbor framework. Thousands of U.S. businesses rely on the Safe Harbor framework in order to support the transfer of data from the European Union. As previously discussed […]