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User Behavior Analytics and Your Company's Data Image

User Behavior Analytics and Your Company's Data

Jason Straight

While cybersecurity spending at many organizations still tends to focus on perimeter defenses, security experts have begun to face the reality that it is nearly impossible to keep bad actors out of your network, and are turning their attention to better ways of mitigating threats posed by intruders once they've hacked their way in.

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The GDPR

Ryan Costello

<b><i>Considerations for Corporate Counsel and Discovery Teams</b></i><p>With the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) set to take effect in May 2018, the serious implications for corporate legal counsel and e-discovery teams are difficult to deny.

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<i><b>Online Extra</b></i><br> Are Law Departments Letting Law Firms Off the Hook When it Comes to Cybersecurity? Image

<i><b>Online Extra</b></i><br> Are Law Departments Letting Law Firms Off the Hook When it Comes to Cybersecurity?

Daniella Isaacson

It is time for a reality check on cybersecurity. Our research has focused on the threat that data breaches present to law firms and law departments independently, but the interplay between cybersecurity at law firms and law departments is increasingly impossible to ignore.

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Liability Releases For Background Checks Are Unlawful Image

Liability Releases For Background Checks Are Unlawful

Sarah Riskin

The federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) requires employers to first inform applicants and employees about the intent to obtain and use a background check. But the FCRA does not provide employers with a template disclosure or any concrete guidance on what the disclosure should say. Rather, the law simply forbids employers from including anything beyond "solely the disclosure" and authorization in the form used to inform individuals about the employer's intent to obtain a background check.

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What You Need to Know to Get Started with Privacy Shield Certification Image

What You Need to Know to Get Started with Privacy Shield Certification

David F. Katz

If your company maintains operations in the European Union or is U.S. based but obtaining personal data from European citizens, you will need to strongly consider obtaining certification under the new Privacy Shield framework. Certification began in August 2016, and will make compliance with EU privacy laws when transferring data to the U.S. possible for the immediate future.

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Blockchain: A Short Primer for Lawyers

Emile Loza de Siles

This article familiarizes lawyers with cryptocurrency and, particularly, the enabling blockchain technology, methodologies and systems. It also introduces lawyers to blockchain's current and future uses and points to other resources to learn more about this profoundly disruptive and promising collection of technological advancements.

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New York State's Financial Services Cybersecurity Regulation Image

New York State's Financial Services Cybersecurity Regulation

Elizabeth B. Vandesteeg & Kathryn C. Nadro

The Regulation was designed to promote the protection of customer information as well as the underlying information technology systems of regulated entities in light of the ever-increasing threat of cyber attacks.

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Is Your Law Firm Running 'Encryption Light?'

Nina Cunningham

With so many warnings to lawyers about transmitting unsecured email and attachments, it can be difficult to understand the solutions available and how they differ. Some may improve security but make communications cumbersome. If too cumbersome, users seek a way to work around them or choose less powerful tools.

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Cyber Spies: In-House Legal Fights Back Against Cyberespionage

Ricci Dipshan

<b><i>An Exploration of the Modern Cyberespionage Threat and How In-House Legal Departments Are Fighting Back</b></i><p>Though faced with limited legal remedies, counsel are coming up with creative new ways to go after cyberespionage actors, and partnering with an array of cyber professionals and government agencies to combat the threat.

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Chapter 13<br><b><i><font="-1">Best Practices in Credit Reporting</b></i></font>

Amy L. Drushal & Lara Roeske Fernandez

There is a new trend emerging in FCRA litigation involving Chapter 13 bankruptcy, under which debtors propose a repayment plan to make installment payments to creditors over three to five years. Increasingly, plaintiffs are filing suit based on certain credit-reporting actions taken (or not taken) during a pending Chapter 13 bankruptcy case, after plan confirmation but prior to the entry of the discharge — when a debtor has met all requirements set by the court.

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