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Words from the wolf at the door
By Peter Sloan
Companies suffering a data breach have a lot to worry about. High on that list is Norman Siegel, a founding member of Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP. Siegel is a prominent…
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Decrypting what you need to know about encryption keys
Some weeks ago I experienced that sinking feeling that comes with locking your keys in the car. Fortunately, I was only a phone call and a 20-minute wait away from…
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Documents, data, and THINGS… oh my!
By Peter Sloan
Admit it – it feels strange, in an e-discovery world, to include “tangible things” in a legal hold notice. Litigation has always been document-intensive, and preserving ESI has been the…
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The 10 key activities for effective data breach response – Are you prepared?
By Peter Sloan
It’s a dangerous world for protected information, with major breaches in the news and a challenging cyber-threat environment behind the scenes. Organizations must be prepared to respond to data breaches,…
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FTC v. Wyndham: the battleground for reasonable data security
In 2012, the Federal Trade Commission filed suit in federal court against hotelier Wyndham and its various subsidiaries (“Wyndham”), claiming that Wyndham’s allegedly unreasonable data security practices allowed hackers to steal…
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Information governance in perspective
By Peter Sloan
I met this grumpy fellow in Sabi Sands, South Africa, and took this picture with my phone (nope, no zoom… wish he’d been further away). The experience reminded me of the…
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Show me yours and I’ll show you mine — The importance of TAR transparency
I write this post on the three-year anniversary (Cheers!) of Judge Andrew Peck’s Da Silva Moore v. Publicis Groupe et al, S.D. New York, 11-1279, 2-24-2012 opinion, widely cited as the…
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Taking stock of the Target data breach
By Meghan Rohlf
The Target data breach disrupted the 2013 holiday shopping season, shook the retail industry, and shocked many who assumed that a nationwide retailer would have the security controls in place…
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Federal Cyber Legislation Update #1
After years of debate, Congress last December passed three bills focused on combating cybercrime. President Obama quickly signed each bill into law. They include: National Cybersecurity Protection Act of 2014. The…
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Zero-based information governance
Once upon a time—back when paper ruled—junk mail was clearly junk. We easily separated the bills from the ads, and it never crossed our minds to save the ads “just…