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What’s a Lawyer’s Duty When a Data Breach Occurs within the Law Firm: Cybersecurity Best Practices

eDiscovery Daily

Right inside the door, you see a handwritten notice on a big whiteboard which says: All network services are down, DO NOT turn on your computers! requires the attorney to act reasonably and promptly to stop the breach and mitigate the damage, using “all reasonable efforts” to restore computer operations to be able to continue client services.

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Weekly podcast: NHS upgrade, $242m Equifax loss and prison hacker jailed

IT Governance

Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 4 May 2018. However, a large part of the loss has been offset by the company’s cyber insurance: Equifax announced that it maintains “$125 million of cybersecurity insurance coverage, above a $7.5 Fourth of may be with you. Or something like that. Nice try, Konrad.

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China’s PIPL has finally arrived, and brings helpful clarification (rather than substantial change) to China’s data privacy framework

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

We have summarised the key compliance obligations under the PIPL below, with new obligations in bold for ease of reference: Relevant Laws/Regulations The PIPL becomes the primary, national-level law governing processing of personal information, but does not replace the existing data privacy framework.

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Me on the Equifax Breach

Schneier on Security

Additionally, I am a Fellow and Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government --where I teach Internet security policy -- and a Fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. This was not a minor vulnerability; the computer press at the time called it "critical."

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OPC reconsiders its approach to cross-border data transfers with the Equifax decision

Data Protection Report

Any organization governed by the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) will have to re-evaluate and likely adjust its approach to such cross-border data transfers, possibly affecting its outsourcing and cloud computing relationships with vendors and related companies. Section 6.1

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

IT Governance

TB Turtlemint Source (New) Insurance India Yes 1,800,000 Chunghwa Telecom Source (New) Telecoms Taiwan Yes 1.7 Source (New) Engineering Japan Yes >5 TB Array Networks Source (New) Cyber security USA Yes 2.5

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Best Digital Forensics Tools & Software for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Autopsy is its GUI and a digital forensics platform used widely in public and private computer system investigations to boost TSK’s abilities. The Computer-Aided Investigative Environment (CAINE) is an open-source Ubuntu- and Linux-based distribution created by Italian developers for digital forensic purposes.