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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

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

UPDATE: Organizations Using the Salesloft Drift AI Chat Agent Must Check It for Compromise

On August 28th, Mandiant issued an update to its previous Salesloft Drift advisory. Therein, Mandiant discussed that Salesloft issued a security notification on Aug. 26 regarding its Drift application. At that time, it...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Salesforce Users: Organizations Using the Salesloft Drift AI Chat Agent with Salesforce Must Check Their Presence for Compromise

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Salesloft issued a security notification on August 26 regarding its Drift application. It appears to be a broad opportunistic attack on Salesloft/Drift instances integrated with Salesforce tenants. Salesloft issued updates...more

Guidepost Solutions LLC

The Intersection of Cyber and Physical Security

Why Cyber and Physical Security Teams Can’t Afford to Work in Silos - In a world where everything from municipal water systems to hospital operating rooms depends on digital infrastructure, the convergence of cyber and...more

DLA Piper

EU: ENISA Guidelines on Compliance with NIS 2 Directive Published

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On June 26, 2025, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) published two sets of guidelines to help businesses ensure their organizational compliance with the NIS2 Directive....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

CISA Releases Malware Analysis Report for Microsoft SharePoint Vulnerabilities

Threat actors continue to exploit ToolShell to gain unauthorized access to on-premises SharePoint servers. On August 6, 2025, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a malware analysis report...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Ransomware Attacks Target SonicWall Firewall Vulnerability

Ransomware group Akira is believed to be behind a large number of attacks that appear to be tied to SonicWall firewalls with SSLVPN enabled. Over the past week, a large number of attacks by the ransomware group Akira have...more

Mayer Brown

Hong Kong Passes First Cybersecurity Legislation for Regulating Critical Infrastructures

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INTRODUCTION - The Protection of Critical Infrastructures (Computer Systems) Bill (the "Bill"), as the first law in Hong Kong to deal with cybersecurity was passed on 19 March 2025, and will come into force on 1 January 2026....more

K2 Integrity

Navigating the Cybersecurity Minefield: Why Midsize Companies Need On-Demand Expertise in the Age of AI and Ransomware

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In today’s always-online world, cyber resilience is a business imperative. For midsize and fast-growing small companies, the stakes have never been higher. The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI), increasingly...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer Requires Urgent Patch

SAP Netweaver Visual Composer users are urged to patch a critical vulnerability that attackers are actively exploiting. According to ReliaQuest, which detected the vulnerability, the attacks allow full system compromise...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

OCC Notifies Congress of Major Email System Security Breach

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On April 8, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) officially notified Congress of a significant information security incident involving its email system. This notification, mandated by the Federal Information...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

5 Common Pitfalls in IT Disaster Recovery (and How to Avoid Them)

Even the strongest IT/DR plans can fail if they aren’t proactive about avoiding these common mistakes. When systems go down, business grinds to a halt. Downtime leads to $9,000 in losses per minute on average, damaged...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

IT/DR Plan Spring Cleaning: How to Replace Outdated Policies

Ready to ditch outdated guidelines and adopt a fresh take on your IT Disaster Recovery plans? Spring is the season of renewal, making it the perfect time to refresh not only physical spaces but also strategies and...more

StoneTurn

2025 Incident Response Landscape: Practical Tips for Cybersecurity Readiness

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Organizations seeking to improve their cybersecurity posture in 2025 must assess what happens after an incident has occurred, and how an incident response team will be able to mobilize to respond. This article provides...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

IT Incident Management Simplified: 5 Strategies for Effective Recovery

Feel confident tackling any threat with a unified incident management approach that integrates roles, communication, and recovery tasks. Small and medium-sized organizations without a disaster recovery plan are 40% more...more

Hogan Lovells

Security Snippets: CISA publishes sector-specific cyber performance goals for IT and product design

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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) unveiled new cyber performance goals aimed at addressing risks to software development and product design in the IT sector. Last week, the Cybersecurity and...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

McCarter & English, LLP

Proposed HIPAA Security Rule Amendments: Not Too Soon to Take Stock

On January 6, 2025 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published a Proposed Rule (90 FR 898) to strengthen the HIPAA Security Rule and afford greater cybersecurity protections for electronic protected health...more

A&O Shearman

Cybersecurity: The changing threat and risk landscape

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Cyber issues are seldom out of the news, from ransomware attacks and espionage to non-malicious outages that cause widespread concern. Organizations need to protect themselves against both current and future risks and...more

Mandelbaum Barrett PC

The CISO as a Chess Piece: A Comprehensive Strategic Analysis

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Let’s role-play the title “Chief Information Security Officer” (CISO) as various chess pieces, each representing different aspects of the challenges and responsibilities faced in this critical position.  Examining these...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Preparing for the Digital Operational Resilience Act (“DORA”): Key Steps for Payments and Fintech Clients

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (“DORA”), an EU regulation designed to bolster the resilience of financial entities against Information and Communications Technology (“ICT”) risks, entered into force on January 16,...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

[Webinar] Data Risk & Resilience Part III - Digital Forensics in your Incident Response Plan - September 19th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm...

Data Resilience Masterclass: Navigating the Risks of the Digital Age - Data Risk and Resilience is a critical topic for modern businesses, especially within industries that handle vast amounts of sensitive information....more

Alston & Bird

United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Issues Joint International Guidance for Event Logging and Threat...

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On August 21, 2024, the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security agency, alongside government agencies in key global allies, including Australia, the UK, Canada, and Japan, released guidance on event logging...more

Warner Norcross + Judd

Managing Cybersecurity Risk for Family Offices and Businesses

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Whether caused by family member thoughtlessness, employee error or the acts of a skilled data thief, everyone is likely to be the victim of an information breach at some point. A cyberattack on a family office or family...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

What Everyone Gets Wrong About Inherent Risk, and Why it Really Matters

Defining the role of inherent risk in cybersecurity - Inherent risk is a concept that while fundamental to cybersecurity, has largely been disregarded by popular cybersecurity risk guidelines and standards and remains arcane...more

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