Law Technology News
Lawyers are critical partners to organizations that are coming under increasing scrutiny from government regulation to protect private customer data. Lawyers need a working knowledge of the security frameworks designed to mitigate risks and satisfy regulations.
New York Law Journal
Attorneys Richard Raysman and Peter Brown discuss the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards initiated by credit card brands to safeguard sensitive cardholder data and recent litigation and state legislative developments in merchant liability for data security breaches.
Employment Law Strategist
A data breach can result in employer liability as well as a costly loss of productivity, warns Posternak Blankstein attorneys Rosanna Sattler and Nancy J. Puleo. Employers should be aware of new data privacy and security laws that may affect their methods of conducting business.
The National Law Journal
Connecticut, Massachusetts and Nevada enacted laws requiring businesses to institute compliance to secure personal data from identity theft. Nick Akerman and Melissa J. Krasnow, partners at Dorsey & Whitney, discuss the new laws and their significance for businesses and law firms.
Legal Times
Viruses and spyware lurk. Your client's secrets can zoom out of your law office on cyberwings. And BlackBerrys, iPhones and thumb drives can all go missing. What are lawyers to do? Legal Times talks data security with the head of Optimal Networks, a full-service IT provider.
Special to Law.com
A vulnerability in virtual private networks using secure socket layer encryption can allow a hacker to take over a computer via an ActiveX control. Brian Dykstra grilled Mike Zusman of Intrepidus Group to uncover this little-known weakness in a common corporate security tool.
Law Technology News
Your data can be stolen by hackers, lost in a system failure or exposed through metadata. What are you doing about it? Larger firms have IT specialists to protect and back up data, but for data security "do-it-yourselfers," attorney Robert J. Ambrogi identifies Web sites that can help.
Special to Law.com
Two of the biggest threats to individual Internet users are phishing and botnets. During the 2008 Black Hat events in Las Vegas this year, the elite of the computer security community focused their efforts on a better understanding of the economics and technology behind these threats.
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