Last year, SEC Chair Mary Jo White named cybersecurity as the biggest risk facing financial markets. But the risk isn’t limited to the financial industry – even a casual review of breach reports in the mainstream press shows that cybersecurity is a risk common to all companies in any industry.…
One of the great frustrations in contemplating a data security program is that there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all solution. There is no law or regulation that specifies the exact steps a company needs to take in order achieve data security. While there are some regulatory and industry…
December is the month for predictions. During this month, commentators of all sorts and in all areas predict the trends and actions that will impact us during the coming year. While speculating the future is a questionable pursuit, we at the Cybersecurity Lawyer Forum would hate to be left out…
One of the challenges – perhaps the biggest challenge – to achieving cybersecurity is complexity. Every day we are faced with new threats as hackers display their creativity and new technologies and approaches to addressing those threats. Governments, both U.S. and foreign, regularly propose laws and regulations better to protect…
Spring is the season for many things, including the publication of cybersecurity surveys. In the past few months, Verizon has published its Data Breach Investigations Reports, Ponemon Institute Published its 2016 Study on How Organizations Manage Data Breach Exposures, the California Attorney General published its annual California Data Breach Report,…
In Michael Gold’s commentary, “Still Only Human,” published in the July 18, 2016 edition of the Los Angeles Business Journal, he writes: “Cybercrime cost the world economy about $500 billion in 2015 and this year’s numbers will be even higher. The cost of data breaches is projected to reach $2.1…
Cybercrime cost the world economy about $445 billion in 2014 and the 2015 numbers will be even higher. The cost of data breaches will reach $2.1 trillion globally by 2019. Worldwide spending on information security is estimated to reach $77 billion in 2015. In the midst of these astounding numbers,…