When senior Wired writer Mat Honan got hacked earlier this month, he lost eight years’ worth of emails, and everything on his laptop, iPhone, and iPad—from documents to photos of his baby daughter. It was a highly personal loss, though one writ large against the forces confronting just about every plugged-in person and company: the increasing frequency of cyberattacks, weaknesses in data security policies and practices at major corporations, and the approaching ubiquity of cloud computing.
For the in-house lawyers in the room, then, it’s worth reviewing what happened to Honan with an eye toward company oversight—illustrated by a new survey of general counsel and corporate directors, and an interesting idea the U.S. Department of Energy is proffering about corporate governance and cyber-risk.
