By Daniel J. Siegel, Law Offices of Daniel J. Siegel LLC The sky is falling! The sky is falling! I am always being accused of being the Chicken Little of law office technology, always warning attorneys and law firms that they need to use technology and remove the leech of dependency on traditional methods
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By Joseph Decker and Brett Creasy, CCE, CISSP, bit-x-bit LLC When a company is targeted and a data breach results, the exposure can be staggering. To take the most extreme example, Equifax’s Jan. 13, 2020 settlement of a 2017 class action data breach lawsuit, regarding a breach incident that affected approximately 147 million people,
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By Jordan L. Fischer of XPAN Law Group LLC As we close out 2019, it is a good time to reflect on the numerous changes to the privacy and security legal landscape, while also preparing for what is to come in the new year. The short predictions: the craziness of 2019 is going to continue for
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By Peter F. Johnson, Superior Court of Pennsylvania Late last month, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia filed its decision in Kaspersky Lab, Inc. v. United States Department of Homeland Security, 18-5176, 2018 WL 6252798 (D.C. Cir. Nov. 30, 2018), upholding a congressional prohibition on the use of Kaspersky Lab
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By Joshua Mooney As much of the country’s workforce traveled on the Wednesday before the Thanksgiving holiday, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued a landmark decision in cybersecurity: under Pennsylvania law, employers have an independent duty to protect employee data from cyberattacks. Specifically, in Dittman v. UPMC, 2018 Pa. LEXIS 6051 (Pa. Nov. 21,
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