An excellent article appeared this week in the Eye on Privacy blog at the law firm Sheppard, Mullin, concerning an event in the title insurance industry that highlights a gross violation of the New York cybersecurity rules that became effective in March 2017! The event occurred in 2018 when a data breach was announced by First American Title Insurance […]
Courtesy of the law firm Abrams Garfinkel Margolis Bergson (AGMB), the following is an update of the September 2016 NYDFS cybersecurity regulations proposal! On September 22, 2016 AGMB issued an Alert about new cybersecurity regulations proposed by the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) which aimed to protect consumers and financial institutions from […]
Are institutions and businesses prepared for an attack by a potentially unknown and likely unseen enemy? Well, if the trifecta of events that occurred on July 8, 2015 can be used as a guide, then the answer to that question may be an emphatic NO (NYSE, Wall Street Journal and United Airlines)! And that NO […]
As a title insurance firm, data security and the protection of non-public information are both key components of our privacy pledge to clients and partners, much as it is for companies across the business spectrum! But with the prevalence and ever-increasing sophistication of the bad guys when it comes to trying to infiltrate the technology […]
Do businesses sufficiently consider the proprietary Information and data security risks posed by their digital copiers? Attending a conference yesterday, one of the speakers touched on a topic that many in the audience had never thought of or considered…The data and information risks posed by their innocent looking copy machine! Consider that if a survey was to […]
For better or worse corporations, utilities and individuals alike now have an unbreakable link to technology and the internet! And that fact is not going to change in the future as instead we will likely become even more dependent on technology in our personal and business lives, not less. So are we as a nation […]
