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  • Tax Season & Covid-19-Peak Time for Law Firm Cyber Threats
    • Law firms house large amounts of confidential and sensitive information, so it's no surprise they are a high-valued target for malicious actors.
    • During busy seasons, like tax season and now with the Covid-19 outbreak, the risk increases as more employees work remotely.

      Bloomberg Law - Garth Landers | March 19, 2020
    news.bloomberglaw.comMarch 19, 2020
  • Closing the Regulatory Loophole: Third Party Breach Notification
    • According to AT&T's A CEO's Guide to Navigating the Threat Landscape report, approximately 50 percent of data breaches are first detected by the breached company's employees. What about the other 50 percent?
    • What the report does not measure (because it's impossible) is how often companies ignore breach notifications from third parties that are not under the employ of the company.

      Infosecurity Magazine - Kurtis Minder | March 19, 2020
    infosecurity-magazine.comMarch 19, 2020
  • 5 Security Risks for Companies When Adopting Work from Home
    • The main cause of data breaches has traditionally been employee negligence, with studies showing 17 percent of data breaches in 2019 were caused by employees.
    • With work- from-home procedures in place, organizations could face an increase in attacks that could lead to data breaches.

      Bitdefender - Liviu Arsenu | March 17, 2020
    businessinsights.bitdefender.comMarch 17, 2020
  • What to Do When You Wake Up to a PR Crisis
    • They say 'there's no bad press.'
    • But after coaching hundreds of clients through their darkest days of PR, an expert says they are wrong.
    • "Cancel culture" is real. Customers are willing to boycott on little or no provocation, and companies are being held to increasingly higher ethical standards as the internet keeps consumers informed.

      Entrepreneur - Cheryl Snapp Connor | March 17, 2020
    entrepreneur.comMarch 17, 2020
  • Remote Working: What Employers Need To Know
    • COVID-19 concerns have swept across the country in the last weeks.
    • For employers, that means seriously considering allowing their employees to work remotely.
    • This inevitably involves addressing both logistical – and legal – issues.

      The National Law Review - Benjamin Widener and Cory Rand | March 17, 2020
    natlawreview.comMarch 17, 2020
  • Cover Story: Australia Is 'Falling Behind' On Protecting Children's Online Privacy
    • Children in Australia are being pervasively tracked when they go online without proper regard for their privacy or the risks of collecting their data, according to technology and privacy experts.
    • In some jurisdictions, data protection laws and regulators have attempted to rein in the practice with new standards and large fines for breaches.
    • But Australia, which critics say lacks robust privacy protections generally, is falling further behind because of an absence of enforceable protections for children's privacy or effective avenues for recourse when breaches occur.

      Which-50 - Joseph Brookes | March 16, 2020
    which-50.comMarch 16, 2020
  • Do startups need to protect their company directors?
    • When setting up a business, you can forgive company directors when they don't place corporate governance high up on the agenda.
    • As a company director you have the power to make your business act in a particular way.
    • Therefore, you can be held accountable by the courts for ensuring your startup complies with all the applicable laws and regulations.

      EconoTimes | March 15, 2020
    econotimes.comMarch 15, 2020
  • As the networks evolve enterprises need to rethink network security
    • Organizations are radically redesigning their networks by adopting multi-cloud environments, building hyperscale data centers, retooling their campuses, and designing new connectivity systems for their next-gen branch offices.
    • Networks are faster than ever before, more agile and software-driven. They're also increasingly difficult to secure.

      NetworkWorld - Zeus Karravala | March 15, 2020
    networkworld.comMarch 15, 2020
  • The Role of OT & IoT Visibility in Physical and Cyber Environments
    • A small 20-person rock crushing operation recently suffered a cyberattack that shut operations down for the day.
    • One of the company's conveyor belt control systems was unable to sense if it were on or off, so the belt kept moving.
    • Product continued to roll in, unfortunately resulting in over $100,000 in damages and unplanned shutdown.

      Security Boulevard - Chet Namboodri | March 10, 2020
    securityboulevard.comMarch 10, 2020
  • Hackers using fake HIV test results, coronavirus emails to target healthcare companies
    • Cybercriminals are using fake HIV test results and coronavirus conspiracy theories to break into the computer systems of healthcare companies.
    • Workers in insurance, healthcare, and pharmaceutical companies worldwide were all targeted in these attacks.

      FierceHealthcare - Heather Landi | March 10, 2020
    fiercehealthcare.comMarch 10, 2020

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