IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2021

For the second month in a row, ransomware has dominated our list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breaches. Of the 128 publicly disclosed incidents that we discovered in May, more than 40% of them were ransomware attacks. That partially explains why May’s total of 115,861,330 breached records is comparatively low. Ransomware.

Data breaches 124

Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Energy and Utilities 124

IT Governance

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In a month where security experts across Europe were boosting awareness of cyber security , organisations had mixed results in their own data protection practices. On the one hand, the 421,103,896 data records that were confirmed to have been breached in October represents about 50% of the monthly average. Data breaches.

Data breaches 92

Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Retail 92

The Last Watchdog

APRIL 3, 2019

I had the chance at RSA 2019 to visit with Mike Kiser, global strategist at SailPoint , an Austin, TX-based supplier of IGA services to discuss this. Companies need a reliable way to know at all times where sensitive data is sitting, and who might be accessing it, in order to keep it out of the hands of threat actors, he said.

Digital transformation 140

Digital transformation Insurance Compliance Healthcare 140

IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

A royal baby, a fire at Notre-Dame, the highest grossing film of all time and more than 12 billion breached data records: 2019 has been quite a year. IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. Part one covers January to June, and will be followed by part in the coming days.

Data breaches 69

Data breaches GDPR Passwords Personal data 69

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

MAY 13, 2019

In the past two years, multiple state bills that have been introduced in the US to provide for cybersecurity requirements and standards to the insurance sector, with recent legislative activity taking place in particular within the States of Ohio, South Carolina, and Michigan. NYDFS: Setting a new bar for state cybersecurity regulation.

Insurance 40

Insurance Cybersecurity Data breaches Financial Services 40

Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Summer 2021 National Meeting (Summer Meeting) August 14-17, 2021. Highlights include, among others, adoption of revised risk-based capital bond factors for life insurers, amendments to SSAP No. NAIC Adopts Revised Risk-Based Capital Bond Factors for Life Insurers.

Insurance 88

Insurance e-Delivery Paper Sales 88

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Investors, business clients, and more continue to look for secure application access for remote workers , provide real-time visibility into cyberattacks, and protect data as it travels from the cloud to edge networks and end-users and back. Series B Apiiro Security 2019 Tel Aviv, Israel 65 $35.0 Seed Deduce 2019 New York, NY 22 $17.3

Cybersecurity 142

Cybersecurity Cloud Compliance Analytics 142

Data Matters

JANUARY 2, 2018

This past year was marked by ever more significant data breaches, growing cybersecurity regulatory requirements at the state and federal levels and continued challenges in harmonizing international privacy and cybersecurity regulations. Data breach litigation risks. Data breach litigation may reach a turning point in 2018.

Cybersecurity 68

Cybersecurity Privacy Data breaches GDPR 68

Hunton Privacy

APRIL 30, 2019

The French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) recently published its Annual Activity Report for 2018 (the “Report”) and released its annual inspection program for 2019. Of the 11,077 complaints received by the CNIL in 2018, approximately 20 percent are the subject of cooperation between EU data protection authorities.

GDPR 48

GDPR Personal data Data breaches Marketing 48

Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 3, 2018

On November 29, 2018, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) launched an online public consultation regarding two new CNIL draft standards (“Referentials”) concerning the processing of personal data to manage (1) business activities and (2) unpaid invoices. . Background.

GDPR 81

GDPR Personal data Insurance Education 81

Data Matters

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Fall 2020 National Meeting (Fall Meeting) December 3-9, 2020. NAIC Adopts the Group Capital Calculation Template and Instructions and Related Revisions to the Insurance Holding Company Act. Insurance groups will be exempt from filing a GCC if. groups to non-U.S.

Insurance 68

Insurance Paper Risk Analytics 68

Data Matters

JUNE 24, 2021

On June 15, 2021, the SEC announced settled charges against First American Title Insurance Company (First American) for disclosure controls and procedures violations related to a cybersecurity vulnerability that exposed sensitive customer information.

Cybersecurity 68

Cybersecurity Financial Services Risk Compliance 68

Data Matters

AUGUST 19, 2020

On July 21, 2020, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS or the Department) issued a statement of charges and notice of hearing (the Statement) against First American Title Insurance Company (First American) for violations of the Department’s Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Services Companies, 23 N.Y.C.R.R.

Financial Services 68

Financial Services Cybersecurity Insurance Risk 68

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

MAY 7, 2019

Please join the Hogan Lovells Privacy and Cybersecurity team on May 15 for our webinar, Hacking 101: How it Works and How to Mitigate Risk. Lawyers, privacy officers, compliance officers, and executives are key figures in helping manage such risks, but many may not understand how various hacks work. Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2019.

Risk 40

Risk IT Compliance Privacy 40

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

billion in 2021, and growing concerns over data security , software supply chains , and ransomware suggest the market will remain strong through economic ups and downs. How to Land a Round of Funding Securing Data and Infrastructure is Hot. Investments in cybersecurity more than doubled from $12 billion to $29.5 How Do VC Firms Work?

Cybersecurity 126

Cybersecurity Cloud Marketing Security 126

Data Matters

AUGUST 24, 2018

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Summer 2018 National Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, from August 4 to 7, 2018. NAIC Continues its Evaluation of Insurers’ Use of Big Data . The NAIC is also considering insurers’ use of big data in underwriting life insurance products.

Insurance 60

Insurance Big data e-Delivery Risk 60

Data Protection Report

JULY 9, 2018

states have recently introduced and passed legislation to expand data breach notification rules and to mirror some of the protections provided by Europe’s newly enacted General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). See our earlier post on the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) here. Several U.S. State Laws Round Up: .

GDPR 40

GDPR Data breaches Personal data Insurance 40

Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

These regulatory technical standards were passed into EU law as Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/389 (the RTS), which entered into effect on September 14, 2019. Examples of MITs given by the EBA include utilities bill payments, TV and mobile phone subscriptions, digital services subscriptions and insurance premium payments.

Authentication 102

Authentication e-Delivery Risk Sales 102

Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

What follows below is an edited version of the debate in the House of Lords of the Second Reading of the Data Protection Bill, held on 10 October. Data is not just a resource for better marketing, better service and delivery. Data is used to build products themselves. It has become a cliché that data is the new oil.

GDPR 120

GDPR Personal data Government IT 120

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

MAY 29, 2019

Following the one-year anniversary of the coming into effect of the GDPR, Hogan Lovells’ Privacy and Cybersecurity practice has prepared summaries of key GDPR-related developments of the past 12 months. The summaries cover regulatory guidance, enforcement actions, court proceedings, and various reports and materials.

GDPR 40

GDPR Personal data Privacy Information architecture 40

Data Matters

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Chair Gensler also stressed the importance of proper disclosure regimes for non-public-company service providers — including, for example, cloud companies, investor reporting systems and providers, and data analytics. 11 But the SEC declined to go that far when it adopted Reg SCI. Best Practices for Public Companies.

Cybersecurity 88

Cybersecurity Marketing Risk Compliance 88

Troy Hunt

MARCH 2, 2020

After 11 months of a very intensive process culminating in many months of exclusivity with a party I believed would ultimately be the purchaser of the service, unexpected changes to their business model made the deal infeasible. The point is the net was cast very wide.

IT 135

IT Mining Sales Data breaches 135

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 23, 2019

According to the 2019 Thales Data Threat Report-India Edition , digital transformation is well underway in India, with 41% of Indian respondents saying they are either aggressively disrupting the markets they participate in or embedding digital capabilities that enable greater organizational agility. On the contrary.

Digital transformation 15

Digital transformation Cloud Encryption Data Privacy 15