Jennings Strouss attorneys Andy Chambers, Michael Kelly and Jimmie Pursell provide a high-level view of data breaches and their impact on businesses and consumers from a legal perspective.
The topics covered included:
Scope of the Problem
- Number of instances
- The impact on organizations by category and on public companies
- Cost of a data breach
- Types of data and entities at risk
- Customer data: as it relates to businesses
- System compromise
Regulatory Requirements and Preparing for a Breach
- Regulatory requirements
- Federal regulation
- Common threads in federal privacy and security regulations
- State laws
- Industry standards and best practices
- Conduct an audit / be proactive
- Insurance
Best Practices
- Before a data breach occurs
- Policies and procedures relative to data security
- After a breach
- Other non-data breach concerns
- Digital safeguards in a digital environment
- Physical security
- Cultural security
- Best practices
- CSIS Twenty Critical Security Controls
For more information about our cybersecurity practice, click here or contact Michael Kelly.