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President Barack Obama's administration on Feb. 12 released its much-anticipated voluntary cybersecurity framework, giving U.S. companies a common handbook on how they can try to fend off hackers.
Framework Announced
The Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, put out by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is intended to help banks, utilities, technology companies and other businesses that work with critical infrastructure better appraise their risks from hackers and fortify themselves from cyberattacks. The guidelines, which NIST said it will update as warranted, came one year after Obama signed an Executive Order to provide companies with best practices to mitigate cyberrisk.
This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
The Article 8 opt-in election adds an additional layer of complexity to the already labyrinthine rules governing perfection of security interests under the UCC. A lender that is unaware of the nuances created by the opt in (may find its security interest vulnerable to being primed by another party that has taken steps to perfect in a superior manner under the circumstances.
In Rockwell v. Despart, the New York Supreme Court, Third Department, recently revisited a recurring question: When may a landowner seek judicial removal of a covenant restricting use of her land?