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Compliance Under Pressure: Audit Readiness for Healthcare Providers

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In today’s healthcare environment, compliance is a defining element of patient care quality, operational integrity, and public trust. Oversight from agencies such as the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the Centers for Medicare...more

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Data Privacy Strategy: The Complete Compliance Guide

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Organizations often struggle with privacy in a regulatory landscape that can change at any point. However, the risk of data breaches is always rising, and awareness of privacy rights is growing. As a result, maintaining the...more

Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

Protecting Your Team's Data: What Every Employer Needs to Know

Let’s talk about something that doesn’t get enough attention: protecting your employees’ sensitive personal information. In today’s digital world, keeping your team’s data safe isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s absolutely...more

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Protecting Data While Traveling Internationally: An Employer’s Guide for Foreign Nationals and Other Global-Traveling Workers

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International travel may pose serious data security risks – especially for your foreign national workers carrying sensitive, proprietary, or regulated information. Travelers must be aware of potential border inspections,...more

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

Why Your Organization Should Be Thinking About Quantum Computing and the Future of Encryption

Quantum computing (QC) is poised to disrupt cybersecurity in ways that business leaders and legal professionals cannot afford to ignore. But what exactly is quantum computing, why does it pose such a significant threat to...more

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The Great Encryption Standoff: Apple vs. the UK’s Surveillance Push

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In the quiet corridors of Apple’s headquarters, executives face a decision that could reshape the future of digital privacy for billions of users worldwide. The catalyst? A controversial order from the United Kingdom’s...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

OCR Issues Proposed Rule to Strengthen Cybersecurity for ePHI

The Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recently issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “Proposed Rule”) to modify the Health Insurance Portability and...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

Caution! Credential Stuffing on the Rise

If you have a tendency to reuse the same password across multiple accounts, you could be leaving yourself (and your organization) exposed to risk. Credential stuffing, the stealthy technique fueling a recent explosion of...more

Fisher Phillips

Ransomware Costs Businesses Record-High $1 Billion in 2023: Your 5-Step Plan to Prevent Attacks in 2024

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2023 was the most devastating year yet for ransomware attacks, with businesses forking over $1 billion in ransom payments for the first time ever – and 2024 is expected to be even worse. Beyond the payments, the average cost...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Are Automakers Making Sufficient Efforts to Protect Customer Data?

With the ever-expanding Internet of Things, data privacy is a growing concern in today’s digital age. The automotive industry is no exception. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (“NHTSA”) has broad regulatory...more

Perkins Coie

Four Data Security Safeguards the FTC Would Like Companies To Adopt in 2023

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Data security will undoubtedly remain an enforcement priority for the Federal Trade Commission in 2023. A presentation on the FTC’s approach to data security by Deputy Chief Technologist Alex Gaynor at a Commission open...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Quantum Computing: The Looming Threat of Quantum Decryption

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Every portion of a home relies on a solid foundation. If that foundation fails, then everything above it could also be compromised. Many systems work this way: There are one or more critical elements that act as their...more

Paul Hastings LLP

Data Privacy and Cybersecurity New Laws and Regulations Report

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Throughout 2022, we continue to see regulators placing an emphasis on the importance of protecting and securing information, in particular consumer personal information, at both the federal and state levels. ...more

Fisher Phillips

NFTs Aren’t Just Revolutionizing Art, Sports, and Videogames – They’re Changing the Future of Employment

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NFTs – or non-fungible tokens – are increasingly popular among artists, sports figures, and the video game industry. But NFTs (some selling for upwards of eight figures) are not just for gamers, Mark Cuban, and the ultra...more

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The Colonial Pipeline Ransomware: Know Where Your Key Data Lives, Decrease Your Threat Footprint

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The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack was the largest in the energy sector to date, and with cybercrimes up 100% from 2019 to 2020 this is only the beginning for 2021. Many organizations are taking on a digital...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Privacy Perils: Password Quarantine Hygiene

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Some have used the pandemic, and now the extended inclement weather, to learn to play a musical instrument, speak a new language or another new skill. If those are beyond any of your reasonable expectations, do not simply...more

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International statement calls for backdoor access into encrypted communications

Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 23 (December 10, 2020) - Officials from the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India and Japan released a statement calling for big tech firms to allow...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

How Creepy is Your New IoT Device? Check Out This Privacy Guide!

There are billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices out there in the world and this number will only grow. I’ve written before about smart light bulbs and smart security cameras and it’s no secret that I am fascinated by...more

McGuireWoods LLP

FTC “Zooms” Into Settlement Agreement with Communications Company Over Concerns with its Security Practices

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On November 9, 2020 the FTC entered into a consent agreement with Zoom Video Communications, Inc. to address concerns over the videoconferencing platform’s security practices. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need...more

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FTC And Zoom Reach Settlement Over Alleged Privacy And Data Security Misrepresentations

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On November 9, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced a settlement with Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (“Zoom”) to resolve allegations that the company misled customers about steps it had taken to protect...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Zoom Agrees to Settle FTC’s Data Security Charges

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Seven months after being called upon by members of Congress to investigate Zoom’s data security practices, a divided FTC announced on November 9 a settlement with the videoconferencing platform....more

Ballard Spahr LLP

FTC - Zoom consent order: implications for remote workforces

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On November 9, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced in a press release that it had reached a settlement with Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (Zoom) to resolve allegations that Zoom had engaged in unfair and...more

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BakerHostetler Blockchain University: What is Blockchain and Why Should I Care?

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Blockchain technology is widely anticipated to disrupt major industries and business operations over the next several years. But with all of the “hype” in the blockchain market, at times it can be difficult to separate fact...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield No Longer Adequate for Data Transfers

The Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) has determined that the Swiss-United States Privacy Shield does not provide an adequate level of data protection for data transfers from Switzerland to the U.S....more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Digital Planning Podcast - Interview With Leeza Garber

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The Digital Planning Podcast is designed to educate individuals about all things digital in connection with estate planning, business planning, and estate administration. Your hosts, attorneys Jennifer Zegel, Ross Bruch, and...more

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