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Data Breach Vendors Risk Management

McCarter & English, LLP

Don’t Get Caught in Scattered Spider’s Web

The cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider is at it again, according to Google’s Threat Intelligence Group. This criminal group is known to focus its cyber attacks on one sector at a time. Last spring, it was the retail...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

Red Flags In Your Vendor’s Business Continuity Plan

Ensure your vendors are crisis-ready by recognizing these key indicators of weak continuity planning. The interconnected nature of modern business means that your vendors’ operational resilience can, and frequently does,...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

FAQs for Schools and Persons Affected By the PowerSchool Data Breach

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A massive data breach hit one of the country’s largest education software providers. According to EducationWeek, PowerSchool provides school software products to more than 16,000 customers, largely K-12 schools, that serve 50...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Tips for Vacation Rental, Property Mgmt. Businesses Facing Vendor Cybersecurity Risk

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No organization can eliminate data breach risks altogether, regardless of industry, size, or even if the organization has taken significant steps to safeguard their systems and train employees to avoid phishing attacks....more

Baker Donelson

Best Practices for Protecting Operations from Vendor's Cyber Incidents

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In the aftermath of a vendor's hack that crippled an industry, ensure your business is up to date on best practices for mitigating the risks of third-party cyber incidents. Many businesses struggle to adequately consider the...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded: Technology Law Insights - V 4, Issue 4, April 2023

Tech Vendors and Cybersecurity – Are They Responsible? It has long been recommended that when you contract with a technology vendor that you include an indemnity clause in the contract wherein the vendor will indemnify you...more

Burr & Forman

Cybersecurity Checklist for Vendor Management – Vendor Security

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By now, you have heard many news stories about debilitating cyberattacks that started with the compromise of a vendor's systems and ultimately wreaked havoc on that vendor's customers. As a result, many businesses are seeking...more

McDermott Will & Emery

[Webinar] Privacy and Cybersecurity Contracting: What’s the “Deal”? - June 29th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT

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Security Schedules, Privacy Addenda, TOMs, DPAs—whatever you call them, privacy and cybersecurity contract terms have exploded in prevalence in recent years, bringing with them new importance that can lead to difficult and...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

[Event] Interact 2022 - August 14th - 17th, Nashville, TN

Exclusive roadmap reveals, immersive Q&A with top product & industry experts, live product demos, electrifying presentations, co-innovation opportunities, and so much more— all coming to you live from the heart of Nashville,...more

NAVEX

Third-Party Breaches Highlight Importance of Managing Risk

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Recent incidents of cyberattacks impacting major organizations through exploited weaknesses in third-party relationships have highlighted the importance of holistic third-party risk management, creating an opportunity to...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

FTC Issues Final Rule Amending the Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information – Data Breach Notification Obligations to...

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On October 27, 2021 the FTC issued a final rule (the “Final Rule”) amending 16 CFR Part 134, Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information (“Safeguards Rule”), after a period of notice and comment. While the existing...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Gerry Blass on Healthcare Vendor Risk Management

Healthcare risk doesn’t stop at the facility’s door. Covered entities have countless business associates (BA), each of which poses risks of its own. That, in and of itself, is a challenge, but Gerry Blass, President and CEO...more

Ankura

Implementing the NIST Privacy Framework – Communicate Function

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In this fourth installment of five articles centered around the core functions within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Privacy Framework, we cover the Communicate function and the corresponding...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

Mitigating a Company’s Liability When a Data Breach Is Suffered by a Vendor or Service Provider

Data breaches by large companies have been in the news for some time. Over the last several years several companies, including Marriott, Yahoo and Volkswagon, have been victimized by hackers who have broken into a company’s...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

Vendor Risk Roundup: 3 Huge Breaches (So Far!) This Year

Wherever you look, it feels like cyberattacks are becoming increasingly common. Criminal hackers are making the headlines every day, stealing the personal information of millions of people, ranging from birthdays to Social...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Data Protection And The Role Of Vendor Management

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The SolarWinds hack highlights the critical need for organizations of all sizes to include cyber supply chain risk management as part of their information security program. It is also a reminder that privacy and security...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

Managing Third-Party Vendor Regulatory Compliance

Data breaches are a hot topic and will undoubtedly get even hotter. Cybersecurity for your own enterprise isn’t enough — you must evaluate your vendors and determine if they’re prepared to resist cyberattacks.  ...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Cybersecurity: the SEC Provides Guidance on Well-Known and Emerging Best Practices

At the end of January, the U.S. Securities and Exchange’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) released its “Observations on Cybersecurity and Resiliency Practices” (Observations)....more

The Volkov Law Group

Lessons Learned from the Capital One Data Breach (Part I of III)

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Not to say, I told you so, but around the same time that the Capital One data breach occurred, I was reminding clients that nearly half of  all significant data breaches or cyber-incidents occur because of internal actors. ...more

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Hospitals In The Crosshairs: Managing Cybersecurity Risk (2)

In our last article, we showed you how to evaluate where your organization sits on the landscape of readiness and preparedness. In this concluding article, we identify concrete steps you can immediately employ to move your...more

K2 Integrity

A Few Lessons We’ve Learned About Fighting Fraud

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Fraud presents a constant threat to companies around the globe—and that risk is growing as perpetrators become ever more digitally savvy and creative in their criminal activities. K2 Intelligence has conducted a multitude of...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

Protecting Data: Vendors May Be Your Weakest Link

A Verizon Communications vendor misconfigured a cloud server that caused the information of 6 million Verizon customers to be exposed on-line. When a cyber incident or data breach occurs on your vendor’s watch, regardless of...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Cloudbleed: Three Risk Management Lessons Learned 

Recently, a Google researcher discovered a serious flaw with the content delivery network (CDN) provided by CloudFlare. This vulnerability has now become known as Cloudbleed, in a nod to the earlier Heartbleed SSL...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

What are you doing to prevent a data breach

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A broker-dealer recently agreed to pay a $650,000 fine after an OSJ’s cloud vendor failed to adequately protect customer information. Apparently, an outside hacker was able to gain access to non-public personal information...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

DFS Cyber Regulation: Part II – An Interview with Bay Dynamics’ Steven Grossman

This is the second installment in our interview with Steven Grossman, VP Strategy & Enablement at Bay Dynamics, the cyber risk analytics company. Here, Steven discusses the importance of aligning an institution’s risk...more

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