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The parting shot — restricting former employees’ social media use
With a click of a button, a former employee can communicate to a large audience of connections made during his career. Such communications often involve the former employee enticing co-workers…
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Broke, bothered, and beleagured
Do you often feel that despite best efforts to circle the wagons your information security team is fighting a losing battle with broken down tools? Even though information security budgets…
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Gilding, gelding, & cyber insurance applications
By Peter Sloan
It’s tempting to “gild the lily” when applying for cyber insurance. Insurers are still getting their arms around how to underwrite cyber risks, and so applications commonly feature a lengthy…
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We’re ALL in the information business
By Peter Sloan
Last Friday, when Amazon’s market cap pushed past Walmart’s, the headlines almost wrote themselves – “Internet Retailer Amazon Topples Traditional Retailer Walmart,” or the like. The lead angle? Amazon’s information-based business…
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Breach litigation standing — the bell tolls for Clapper
By Taylor Concannon, Peter Sloan
For years, federal district courts have reliably dismissed data breach consumer class actions at the outset, citing the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Clapper v. Amnesty International. Defendants’ tried-and-true argument…
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But Judge, the dog ate my homework!
By Peter Sloan
When a judge hears that documents no longer exist due to a company’s retention schedule, it feels like we’re transported back to grade school, with a sheepish pupil making lame…
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Gas, Guns N’ Records
A busy examiner, working on 15-20 other cases, sets a file aside in the “delayed/pending” queue while awaiting information, and a gun is sold and nine people died. A utility…
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IG perspective: adding social media to workplace websites
By Alyssa Gonnerman, Peter Sloan
Old-school company intranets are like soooo boring. Why not juice things up? Sure, we’ll keep the one-directional content (employee policies, company announcements, etc.), but let’s add a dynamic platform for…
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Federal Cyber Legislation Update #2
As high-profile data breaches continue to make news, it appears Congress could finally pass legislation establishing a national standard for data breach notification. Currently, PII breach notification is governed by…
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State breach notification laws: the quilt is getting crazier
By Peter Sloan
Ah, Federalism. In countless ways we benefit from a system in which individual states can express their respective policy interests in differing state laws, with the resulting quilt bound together…