Cybersecurity

A survey of more than 460 attorneys and decision makers working in corporate legal departments nationwide found that in-house teams, already stretched by limited resources, are confronting new and traditional challenges. Cybersecurity ranked among legal departments' biggest concerns for 2018.

What Your Organization Can Do to Protect Itself from Email-Based Attacks

There's no question that email has revolutionized the way we operate. Unfortunately, for all of its convenience, email has opened the door to serious security threats that include viruses, malware and fraud. Phishing scams have become a widespread problem — you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who hasn't been on the receiving end of a phishing attempt.

It's been about half a year since Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was activated, and corporate legal, privacy and compliance teams are beginning to adjust to the new lay of the land. We've seen early examples of enforcement activity, and those are helping organizations better understand the long-term landscape for compliance.

New U.S. Department of Justice Cybersecurity Guidelines Stress Preparedness Amid Reports That Many Organizations Have Failed to Plan for a Breach

Data protection tips are virtually everywhere these days. So it's hardly surprising that the U.S. Department of Justice has released new guidelines on that very topic. The UK's National Cyber Security Centre is poised to follow suit.

The advent of cryptocurrencies has raised a host of legal issues; some of the most immediate ones — such as whether cryptocurrencies are securities — appear to have been resolved, but cryptocurrency theft remains a major concern for traders and investors given that billions of dollars of cryptocurrency are stolen every year.

Meritas, a nonprofit association of law firms, now requires its law firm members to follow a new cybersecurity standard. The reason for this new standard? Law firms' clients.

It's clear that the onset of GDPR regulations and a quickly changing consumer sentiment about the sensitivity and value of their personal data will reorient a company's interactions with their customers and their information. There will be some pain points in this transition, as Facebook investors recently demonstrated, but it doesn't have to be a unilateral downturn for the tech industry.

Gemalto's 2018 Breach Level Index found 4.5 billion records were stolen, lost or compromised worldwide in the first half of 2018, a 133 increase over the first half of 2017.