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Three Lessons for a Proactive Approach To Cybersecurity
Do you know where your client's or organization's data is? It's not a rhetorical question ' it's a serious issue that should be at the core of any cybersecurity assessment. Many IT and security departments may have all sorts of sophisticated tools and processes for securing data in-house, but what about service providers who have access to the network? What about outside law firms handling the data on their own premises or in the cloud? And what about the vendors that those firms use?
Cybersecurity has been elevated to a top priority in today's corporate boardrooms, as news of major data breaches has become commonplace over the last few years. The scope of some of those breaches has reached catastrophic proportions, and recent discoveries illustrate the systematic approach of hackers' third-party vendor attack strategy.
For instance, in a recent article renowned cybersecurity expert and journalist Brian Krebs analyzed the successful attack patterns on several large organizations. See, “Catching Up on the OPM Breach,” Krebs on Security. Since July 2014, Chinese hackers have breached and stolen data from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and its third-party vendors. First they targeted OPM's background check provider USIS; then after OPM replaced that provider, hackers breached the new background check provider, Keypoint ' apparently to capture data on federal employees applying for security clearance. Then came the Anthem breach; shortly thereafter were the lesser-known breaches of two Blue Cross subsidiaries that happen to serve federal employees.
Major Differences In UK, U.S. Copyright Laws
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.
Strategy vs. Tactics: Two Sides of a Difficult Coin
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
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.
Removing Restrictive Covenants In New York
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?