No Password Required: From Heavy Metal to the Front Lines of Cyber Innovation
We get Privacy for work — Episode 7: What Is a WISP and Why Your Organization Must Have One
Herb Stapleton's FBI Experience Proves to be Asset to Dinsmore's Corporate Team
On-Demand Webinar: Bring Predictability to the Spiraling Cost of Cyber Incident Response Data Mining
On-Demand Webinar: Bring Predictability and Reduce the Spiraling Cost of Cyber Incident Response
No Password Required: USF Cybercrime Professor, Former Federal Agent, and Vintage Computer Archivist
2023 DSIR Deeper Dive: How International and Domestic Regulatory Enforcement Spotlights the Information Governance Tensions Between ‘There’ and ‘Here’ and Between ‘Keep’ and ‘Delete’
Marketing Minute with NP Strategy (Video): How to Respond to a Cyber Security Breach
Cybersecurity in Video Games & Esports
2023 DSIR Deeper Dive: State Privacy and Data Collection
Digital Planning Podcast Episode: When Cyber Attacks Hit Home
2023 DSIR Report Deeper Dive into the Data
Cybersecurity: What Healthcare Providers Need to Know
2022 DSIR Deeper Dive: NFTs
2022 DSIR Deeper Dive: OCR’s Right of Access Initiative
Hot Topics: Risk Management for Cybersecurity
2022 DSIR Report Deeper Dive: The Expanding Landscape of State Data Privacy Laws
Can Cyber Investigations Be Canned? - Unauthorized Access Podcast
2022 DSIR Report Deeper Dive: Personal Data Deletion
Panel Pursuit: The Ins and Outs of Becoming a Preferred Panel Vendor - Unauthorized Access Podcast
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One key lesson from the ongoing ransomware epidemic is clear: threat actors don’t discriminate. It doesn’t matter who you are or what your business does — if they see an opening, they’ll exploit it, ready or not. Despite...more
Health care remains one of the most targeted and vulnerable sectors when it comes to cyberattacks. In fact, a recent breach at a major health care analytics firm exposed the data of 5.4 million U.S. patients, making it one of...more
Data breaches come in many different forms, sizes, and levels of complexity, but they tend to share certain key facts: A third-party bad actor—whether through a phishing attack, a ransomware attack, exploitation of a zero-day...more
In this episode of “Lawyers With Game,” host Darius Gambino from Saul Ewing’s Video Gaming and Esports Practice chats with colleagues Sandy Bilus and Evan Foster from Saul Ewing’s Cybersecurity & Privacy group about data...more
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Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 1 (January, 2022) - New Jersey issued its third settlement in three months on state-level health care privacy and security laws, announcing that three cancer care providers would adopt new...more
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This fall has been a busy season for privacy professionals. From public education institutions and hospitals, to online broadcast and streaming platforms, we’ve seen a surge of data breaches that coincides with the upcoming...more
Pick the date and news publication. After a few flips of the pages (or a scroll of the mouse), you’ll no doubt find an article about “ABC Company” reeling from a ransomware attack. This proliferation of cyberattacks is all...more
When a data breach occurs, one step is often overlooked in the rush to remediate: preserving as much of the data logs and backups as possible That’s a mistake, say Debra Geroux, Shareholder at Butzel Long and Scott Wrobel,...more
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of Americans have deserted the physical workplace. Modern technology and remote access capabilities have made it possible to transform almost any job to a telework position. As...more
Just recently, Equifax had the largest-ever settlement for a data breach. They are to pay at least $575 million, and potentially as much as $700 million, to settle allegations over its massive 2017 data breach. What we tell...more
Two recent reports reflect that cyberattacks and resulting data breaches continue to threaten U.S. companies and public entities. The Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report (April 23, 2019), compiled from a survey of more than 1,000...more
Imagine this scenario: you’ve had a productive and mutually advantageous ongoing contractual relationship of several years with another party. You have built up quite a bit of trust over the years, and communicate regularly...more
On December 28, 2018, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) closed out the year by releasing long-awaited voluntary cybersecurity guidelines for the health care industry. The four-volume publication,...more
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Earlier this week, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced a $400,000 settlement with Metro Community Provider Network (“MCPN”) related to a 2012 HIPAA breach caused by a phishing scam. The phishing scam, carried...more
We’re writing this week to highlight some of the ways in which President Obama’s evolving views on cybersecurity can help guide corporate governance of data security risks. In an interview with Wired Magazine, the President...more