In “When Key Employees Quit: 5 Things You Must Do to Keep Control of Critical Data,” Michael Ciaramitaro and Sarah Brown, both of Inventus, point out the number one vulnerability for most companies: “Organizations today rely heavily upon technology and electronically stored information – and when employees leave, there’s always a risk that they’ll take some information or data with them when they go, either inadvertently or on purpose.”
Topics: risk management, Differential Sharing, information security, unstructured data
Misery loves company, you could say, but when you are the guardian at the gate, this may be company you don’t want to keep. In “Highlights of Verizon’s 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report,” Sharon Nelson, takes on and highlights Verizon’s most recent survey. In short, the news is not good for anyone in general, and professionals in particular.
Topics: security, risk management, LegalIT, legaltecheducation, Differential Sharing, DBIR, Structured Data, Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report
Reuters tech/biz writer, Jonathon Stempel, recently reported in “Yahoo strikes $117.5 million data breach settlement after earlier accord rejected,” that the settlement is the largest common fund class action settlement in data breach history. The implications of this settlement (revised from an early attempted settlement in hopes of being more palatable to federal district Judge Lucy Koh) are staggering.
Topics: Differentialsharing, compliance, riskmanagement, databreach, data breach, Yahoo breach, unsecured data, sensitive information, sensitive data, security, risk management, financial risk, Yahoobreach