California Enacts the ‘First Truly Sweeping Privacy Regime’ in Record Time

July 5th, 2018|Categories: HB Risk Notes|Tags: , , |

The California legislature -- apparently not wanting to be pegged as just another slow-moving governing body -- took the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 from proposal to passage to signing in one week. Critics weren't sitting on their hands either. "Businesses Blast California’s New Data-Privacy Law," read one headline in the Wall Street Journal. For consumers, Californians anyway, the good news is that they can refuse to allow companies to sell their personal data. But, the WSJ reported, business across the country say the law will cause "far-reaching damage to everything from retailers’ customer-loyalty programs to data gathering by Silicon Valley tech giants." Law firms are cranking out their advisories and analyses. Sullivan & Cromwell says the CCPA establishes a new privacy framework for covered businesses by: "Creating an expanded definition of personal information for purposes of the Act; "Creating new data privacy rights for California consumers, including rights to know, access, have deleted and opt out of the sale of their personal information; "Imposing special rules for the collection of consumer data from minors; and "Creating a new and potentially severe statutory damages framework for violations of the Act and for businesses that fail to implement reasonable security procedures and practices to prevent data breaches." The firm also offered a quick comparison between the CCPA and the GDPR.  "At a high [...]

Cyber Security Summit: Seattle | July 19, 2018

May 31st, 2018|Categories: HB Risk Notes|Tags: , , , , |

Registration: $350 Pay just $175 with promo code HB2018 When 7:45am-6pm June 28, 2018 Where The Westin Seattle 1900 Fifth Avenue Seattle Interested in Sponsorship? Email Brownie Bokelman for more info. Check out all the great programs they run around the country and let us know if you're interested! Learn more.     HB is proud to announce its association with the annual Cyber Security Summit: Seattle, which connects C-suite and senior executives responsible for protecting their companies’ critical infrastructures with innovative solution providers and renowned information security experts. Regular admission is $350, but use the HB promo code and get 50% off! It's HB2018. Admission gives you access to all interactive panels, discussions, catered breakfast, lunch and cocktail reception. Agenda Learn more about the sessions on incident response for CISOs, lessons learned about ransomware, and protecting your enterprise from employees and corporate spies. Faculty See who's speaking.  

Healthcare Cyber Attacks 2017 Report from CryptoniteNXT

February 10th, 2018|Categories: HB Risk Notes|Tags: , , , , , |

In boxing your trainer will tell you to keep your eyes open and your head and feet moving. After all, it's way harder to land a solid punch on a moving target. According to the Healthcare Cyber Research Report for 2017 by CryptoniteNXT the same is true for healthcare organizations. In just the ransomware category alone, they experienced an 89% increase of attacks last year. "Health care networks will remain under persistent attack by cyberattackers that target their valuable data through the use of well understood vulnerabilities," the CryptoniteNXT report reads. "It becomes imperative to deploy a comprehensive strategy both to detect and deter the sophisticated attacker moving through the network, as well as the multitudes of ransomware tools that they will deploy into 2018 and 2019." "New best practices and the technologies that support them," the report continues, "such as moving target cyber defense (MTD) and network micro-segmentation, can detect and defeat many of the attacks leveraged by vulnerabilities found in most health care networks. MTD and network level micro-segmentation technology sets can directly address the inherent weakness in TCP/IP networks. By building out a Zero Trust environment health care institutions can directly address the top vulnerability use cases that exist in their networks today. The decision to deploy moving target cyber defense and network micro-segmentation technologies shut down reconnaissance and [...]

Cyber Risk and Privacy Liability: 3 Upcoming Events!

January 31st, 2018|Categories: HB Risk Notes|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

International Privacy+Security Forum We are proud to partner with Dan Solove and Paul Schwartz on this prestigious event. Click the image to see what an amazing international faculty they have assembled! Cyber Sector Risk Events Here are the first two of a series of seminars and webinars which will focus on the unique cybersecurity risks facing key sectors of business and law. I am stoked about the people we're getting involved in these events. Click on the banners to see what great topics we have in store, and the highly qualified panelists we have addressing them. Also, both events will be streamed live to the web, then available later for download. We are actively seeking speakers, chairs and sponsors for additional HB Cyber Sector Risk seminars. If you would like to participate or have an idea, contact us or send us a proposal! Feel free to contact me directly. I'm often attentive. --Tom Hagy, (484) 324-2755 x2070, Tom.Hagy@LitigationConferences.com.     Learn more about how you can sponsor a Cyber Sector Risk program! Contact Brownie or Suzanne to get our sponsor menu. Brownie.Bokelman@LitigationConferences.com (484) 324-2755 x2120 Suzanne.Armstrong@LitigationConferences.com (484) 324-2755 x2050      

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