By Peter F. Johnson, Superior Court of Pennsylvania California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation mandating a longtime cybersecurity best practice—changing default passwords. The use of weak default passwords is endemic to the consumer devices world, but is just as common in the world of enterprise computer equipment, on which corporate and customer data may
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By Yanai Z. Siegel, Esq. The call comes in, the incredulous shout of anger and dismay follows, and an alert goes out company-wide to stop using your computers RIGHT NOW, do not log off, do not close anything, just hands off the keyboard and mouse until instructed otherwise. You have a data breach.
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By Joshua Mooney and Kate Woods, White and Williams LLP Data privacy and security can feel overwhelming for a company’s executive management. Unfortunately, that overwhelming feeling can prevent constructive dialogue and action toward improving a company’s cybersecurity program. Recently, the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued what it called a “Board tookit” —
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By Joshua Mooney, White and Williams LLP On May 25 2018, the European Union General Data Protection Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), took effect across the European Union, implementing one of the most significant regulatory changes in data protection in more than 20 years. The foundational principle of GDPR is that individuals have a fundamental
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By Joshua Mooney and Andrew Lipton, White and Williams LLP Despite the existence of cybersecurity insurance, companies still seek coverage for cyber liability under various types of other insurance. Carriers, in turn, rely upon broad exclusions to limit coverage for risks never intended to be insured. One such broad exclusion is for contractual liability. However,
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