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Email Is the Biggest Threat to Business, So Why Is Everyone Using It?

Adam Levin

Microsoft’s Outlook.com service suffered a major breach earlier this year. It’s the main communication tool for 95% of businesses. The reason for email’s ongoing existence despite its obvious shortcomings and major security issues is counter-intuitive. It was made to communicate fast.

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The Burden of Privacy In Discovery

Data Matters

Protection of personal privacy has, consequently, become an important goal both in technological development — e.g., the increasing prevalence of “privacy by design” in communications programs such as “ephemeral” messaging systems — and in governmental regulation. The principle of proportionality in civil discovery is hardly new.4

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An Approach to Cybersecurity Risk Oversight for Corporate Directors

Data Matters

Recent guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on disclosure and enforcement actions by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) make clear that cybersecurity is no longer a niche topic, but a concern significant enough to warrant the oversight of corporate boards of directors. Designing an Enterprise-Level Approach.