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Video: Cybersecurity Legal Issues – What you really need to know (Shawn Tuma)

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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Cybersecurity Lessons Learned from SecureWorld #SWDAL16 Conference

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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Cybersecurity Legal Issues: What you really need to know (slides)

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 slides …

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Cybersecurity Incident Response Checklist

Business leaders, when people like me tell you that having a cybersecurity incident in your company is like being in a building on fire, we are not exaggerating. Take a look at the following checklist (note, this is not an incident response plan!) while keeping in mind that over half of the items on that checklist …

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Computer Use Policies – Are Your Company’s Illegal According to the NLRB?

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has continued its assault on businesses and their ability to legitimately protect their computer systems and information against unauthorized non-business use by employees. A few weeks ago, I wrote 3 Important Points on Computer Policies in which I stressed (1) why your company must have them but (2) that …

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Cyber Law Update on #DtSR Podcast with Los, Santarcangelo and Tuma

Listen to the Podcast   /   Join the #DtSR Discussion on Twitter Shawn Tuma was a guest the Down the Security Rabbithole podcast where he and hosts Rafal Los (@Wh1t3Rabbit) and Michael Santarcangelo (@Catalyst) discussed recent events in the world of cyber law. For more great #DtSR content, check out the full Down the Security Rabbithole podcast …

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Four Security Issues All Business Contracts Should Address

Note: this article was previously posted on Norse’s DarkMatters. A recent lawsuit provides a nice case study for how businesses’ contracts can play a critical role in their cybersecurity strategy. Before the court is this question: Who was responsible for maintaining cybersecurity safeguards for a bank’s website, the bank or the company that designed and …

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Three Takeaways from the Target Data Breach Ruling

Note: this article was previously posted on Norse’s DarkMatters. In December 2014, the Court in the Target data breach lawsuits issued a ruling that will impact the future course of data breach litigation (the Order). In the Order, the Court identified multiple distinct data security duties that Target, as well as other companies, owe their …

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Law Firm Cybersecurity: I Hate to Say I Told You So But …

Hey! Any chance you’ve heard anything in the news lately about law firms being under cyber attack? If not, first, crawl out from under that rock; second, take a look at these articles. Wow. Can you believe it? Law firms? Under cyber attack? What is this world coming to? A few years ago, I did a …

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Cybersecurity Legal Year in Review – #DtSR Podcast

Do not miss this podcast discussing key cybersecurity legal events from 2015. Shawn Tuma joined the DtSR Gang [Rafal Los (@Wh1t3Rabbit), James Jardine (@JardineSoftware), and Michael Santarcangelo (@Catalyst)] on the Down the Security Rabbit Hole podcast. In this episode… Most important cybersecurity-related legal developments of 2015 Tectonic Shift that occurred with “standing” in consumer data …

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