The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 11: Signal and Noise: The New Administration, Privacy, and Our Digital Rights with Cindy Cohn of Electronic Frontier Foundation
Digital Planning Podcast - Interview With Leeza Garber
Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 39, Disclosure of Ransomware Attacks
Your Cyber Minute: Compliance with the Proposed NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation
Safeguards against Data Security Breaches (Part One)
While corporate leaders often view cybersecurity as a technical challenge, contributing author Phil Favro illustrates the legal and organizational dimensions of cybersecurity in this recent article. Favro emphasizes that...more
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
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
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
On June 6, 2025, President Trump issued a new executive order, “Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity and Amending Executive Order 13694 and Executive Order 14144” (EO), signaling the construction...more
Encryption is one of several cornerstones of a robust information security program. Articles on quantum computing often include the compelling narrative that encryption is at risk, but as with any revolutionary technology,...more
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
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
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
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
Hosted by American Conference Institute, the 14th Advanced Forum on Global Encryption, Cloud & Cyber Export Controls returns for another exciting year with curated programming that brings together a global gathering of...more
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
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
We’ve spoken before of the need to make your website passwords some combination of complex, long, unusual, nonsensical, personally memorable, etc. For those of us who comply with those suggestions, but have an inflated...more
"You're storing the passwords in plaintext?" My college professor looked at me puzzled. I had to immediately fix this. It was a huge security problem in my senior project, a web-based e-commerce platform. If any hacker tapped...more
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
Most observers believe that the legal profession is rapidly moving toward so-called “hybrid workplaces,” a term office managers use to describe a mixed-work environment that spans brick-and-mortar law offices, home offices,...more
Once again, we see that inaccurate information in a privacy policy can land an organization in hot water. On June 7, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a proposed settlement with MoviePass pertaining to its...more
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
We have (rightly) harped on the necessity of unique and complex passwords, strengthened by multi-factor authentication (temporary text codes, rolling RSA numbers, secret answers to questions, fingerprint or facial...more
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
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
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
On November 9, 2020, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced a proposed settlement with Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (“Zoom”), a video conferencing provider, to resolve claims that Zoom deceived users about the...more
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