Examining the Global Impact of AI + Cyber + Data + Privacy + Law = Business Risk
If you have been wondering “what is Data Privacy Day?” then this is your lucky day because not only is today Data Privacy Day, but here is the answer and an explanation for why it really matters to you and your company’s future success. What is Data Privacy Day? Data Privacy Day is observed every …
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When responding to a data breach, the company has two primary objectives that must be balanced: (1) complying with the legal notification and remediation requirements; and (2) preserving its relationship with its customers. In my opinion, the second is always the most important because if the business fails, we too have failed. In order to …
I have handled several data breach incidents for clients as their breach response counsel and, while we have an effective process to implement to help keep clients out of legal hot water, that really is not the most important aspect of handling the incident. The most important issue is how the incident will impact the …
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TAKEAWAY: Businesses must protect their data from being taken by anyone who is not authorized to have it — insiders and outsiders alike. If their data is taken in a way that is unauthorized, it is a data breach. When a former employee leaves with a thumb drive, Gmail inbox, or Dropbox of your businesses’ …
What do connected cars and toilets have in common? That is the title to a recent Blog Post about an upcoming presentation at VMWorld 2013, Barcelona and, when I read it, I just had to quiz my readers to see who remembered … Come on now, you do know the answer to this question, right? I …
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Today I had the honor of speaking at the Combating Corporate Espionage: Protecting Your Organization From “hackers, insiders & fraudster” seminar with Jarrett Kolthoff and David Major. Jarrett is the CEO of SpearTip Cyber Counterintelligence; he and I have worked together quite a bit so he first impressed me long ago with the depth of his …
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You already know what a threat hacking and data breaches are to your business, right? Good. In that case, you will appreciate the following post from my friends at SpearTip about cyber counterintelligence. Here’s a little teaser: If your organization is not yet retaining a provider that specializes in this technique, referred to as “Cyber …
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Last night I had the wonderful opportunity to present to IMA – The Association of Accountants and Financial Professionals in Business on the topic of Helping Businesses Prepare for Computer Fraud and Data Breaches. Here are the presentation slides. I was really impressed with the quality of this event on many levels — these folks …
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Here is an excellent presentation from SC Magazine that will help business leaders understand what a major threat data breach is to business: 2012 Data breach review – SC Magazine.
About a year and a half ago I wrote a post titled Data Breach – Who’s Gonna Get it? where I made the point that, much like with Ford’s “bean counting” with the Pinto deaths back in the ’70s, companies that were aware of the risk of data breach but did not act responsibly were …
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