Examining the Global Impact of AI + Cyber + Data + Privacy + Law = Business Risk
Officers and directors of companies that have had data breaches have become targets of litigation through shareholder derivative claims since the consumer class-action claims have had a difficult time making it past the causation of harm threshold. Those officers and directors may now sigh in relief, if only briefly, following a November 30, 2016, ruling by the District Court …
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“Can I be held personally liable for my company’s data breach?”
That is one of the questions I am asked most frequently. The answer is “YES!” though the usual reasons provided are not nearly as straightforward as the one discussed in the video below.
Healthcare data is one of the most desirable forms of data for cyber criminals to steal because its value on the cyber black market — the Dark Web — is much higher than most other forms of data. While there are several reasons for this, the recent study Your Life, Repackaged and Resold: The Deep …
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Shawn Tuma delivered the presentation Cybersecurity Legal Issues: What you really need to know at a Cybersecurity Summit sponsored by the Tarleton State University School of Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Strategic Studies’ Institute for Homeland Security, Cybercrime and International Criminal Justice. The presentation was on September 13, 2016 at the George Bush Institue. The following are the video …
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Following an outstanding SecureWorld Expo – Dallas Conference, Courtney Theim posted a nice wrap up of the lessons learned as of the time of her post: #SWDAL16: What We’ve Learned So Far I am going to give you the gist of it and encourage you to go check out the full post: Surgical Info. Hackers …
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https://youtu.be/bZQyBaie69M ______________________ Shawn Tuma (@shawnetuma) is a business lawyer with an internationally recognized reputation in cybersecurity, computer fraud, and data privacy law. He is a Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Partner at Scheef & Stone, LLP, a full-service commercial law firm in Texas that represents businesses of all sizes throughout the United States and, through its Mackrell …
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Shawn Tuma delivered the presentation Cybersecurity Legal Issues: What You Really Need to Know at SecureWorld Expo Dallas on September 27, 2016. The following are the slides from Tuma’s presentation. Download: Cybersecurity Incident Checklist http://www.slideshare.net/shawnetuma/secureworld-expo-dallas-cybersecurity-law-what-business-and-it-leaders-need-to-know The opening Keynote speaker for the event was Dr. Larry Ponemon of the Ponemon Institute. Dr. Ponemon delivered a fabulous …
There is a grave and unfortunate misperception among many business leaders who believe that when their company has had a data breach, going through a response and notification of affected individuals is optional. To the educated readers of this blog, this sounds shocking. Sadly, it is something I see on a regular basis. What is worse …
Below is a post that I wrote in 2011, back when we thought we were in the middle of the “Year of the Data Breach.” We weren’t — not even close. Yesterday I read an article referencing the Ford Pinto and the infamous cost-benefit analysis memo that led to the jury sending “the message” to …
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