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Developing Effective Information Security Programs
For many years, financial institutions and other entities that collect personal information focused on privacy as an emerging legal doctrine presenting compliance challenges and an array of business implications. These issues, while still important and subject to ongoing debate and tinkering, have become, for many financial institutions, an automatic component of ongoing business activities. Now, with all of the attention focused on security of customer information driven by the recent flood of news stories concerning security breaches in numerous industries, privacy's ugly stepchild ' the security of consumer information ' has moved to the forefront of concern, both for financial institutions and the various entities that regulate and oversee them. News stories reporting security breaches are an almost daily occurrence. New legislation is being introduced almost constantly, at both the state and national level. While financial institutions already face a raft of security-related compliance obligations, including the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and others, financial institutions and their important business partners have been a focus of many of the most highly publicized breaches.
With this background, financial institutions (and other companies across America and globally) should be re-evaluating their information security programs. In reviewing the various legal requirements, what are the primary components of an effective security program? And what are the most difficult challenges facing companies in trying to move from a security “best practices” environment to one requiring compliance with specific legal obligations?
Understanding the Legal Landscape
Major Differences In UK, U.S. Copyright Laws
This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
The Article 8 Opt In
The Article 8 opt-in election adds an additional layer of complexity to the already labyrinthine rules governing perfection of security interests under the UCC. A lender that is unaware of the nuances created by the opt in (may find its security interest vulnerable to being primed by another party that has taken steps to perfect in a superior manner under the circumstances.
Strategy vs. Tactics: Two Sides of a Difficult Coin
With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
Legal Possession: What Does It Mean?
Possession of real property is a matter of physical fact. Having the right or legal entitlement to possession is not "possession," possession is "the fact of having or holding property in one's power." That power means having physical dominion and control over the property.
The Stranger to the Deed Rule
In 1987, a unanimous Court of Appeals reaffirmed the vitality of the "stranger to the deed" rule, which holds that if a grantor executes a deed to a grantee purporting to create an easement in a third party, the easement is invalid. Daniello v. Wagner, decided by the Second Department on November 29th, makes it clear that not all grantors (or their lawyers) have received the Court of Appeals' message, suggesting that the rule needs re-examination.