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2020 News in Review

January 4, 2021
Tim Crino
Africa, Artificial Intelligence, Banks, Biometric, Brazil, Breach prevention, Breach response, Business Continuity, C-Suite, Canada, CCPA, CISO, CMMC, CNIL, Compliance, Consumer Privacy, COVID-19, Cyber Fraud, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Data Mapping and Inventory, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Data Rights Management (DRM), data trusts, differential privacy, DPO, Dubai, European Union, Federal Reserve, Federated Learning, Financial Services, GDPR, GLBA, Governance, Government Contracting, Hiring, Hybrid, International Agreements, Investigations, Japan, Machine Learning, New York State, NIST, Penalties and Enforcement, Phishing, Privacy, Privacy Shield, Project Management, Resilience, State Laws, Third Party Compliance, United Kingdom, US Regulatory, Work from Home

Week Ending December 28 ICO Warns SolarWinds Victims to Report Breaches The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a warning to organizations compromised by the SolarWinds breach. The breach, which was carried out by Russian hackers, affected more than 18000 organizations worldwide. ICO requires UK data controllers subject to NIS regulations to report…

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2021 Forecast for Data Privacy Legislation

December 22, 2020
Max Totsky
CISO, Compliance, Consumer Privacy, COVID-19, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Data Protection, GDPR, Governance, International Agreements, Op-Ed, Privacy Shield
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2020 was a massive year for data privacy. New laws became effective all around the world and, in turn, organizations were forced to amp up their data privacy measures to comply. Data privacy regulations are only getting stricter, and that…

How to Manage Third-Party Risk With Increased Number of Remote Workers

July 9, 2020
Max Totsky
Business Continuity, Compliance, COVID-19, Data Protection, Resilience, Third Party Compliance, Work from Home

Any compliance officer knows the importance of third-party risk management (TPRM)–and that keeping vendors in compliance with data privacy and protection laws is a continuous process. But, since the Covid-19 pandemic has forced most businesses to work remotely, overseeing vendor compliance has become much more difficult due to lack of a centralized operation. That’s in…

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Work From Home Cybersecurity Basics: Phishing Scams (United States)

Article authored by Andrea C. Maciejewski, Associate and Joshua A. James, Associate with Bryan, Cave, Leighton Paisner Phishing (not to be confused with the water sport “fishing”) is a type of cyberattack whereby scammers use email or text messages to…

COVID, crims and cash: Financial crime teams need to re-think laundering risks

This article is being reprinted by permission from the author. You can view the published article here. If you're doing AML the same way you were in the pre-COVID world, you're doing it wrong. Nathan Lynch speaks with some of…

Data Protection During a Global Crisis

As the deadly COVID-19 pandemic rages on, public and private entities alike rush to find a cure, a vaccine, and at the very least, methods for limiting the uncontrolled multiplication of the virus. But exploring every possibility must be balanced…

How Small and Medium Enterprises Can Overcome Coronavirus-Related Compliance Challenges

April 16, 2020
Angela Lonzetta
Business Continuity, CCPA, Compliance, COVID-19
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Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are encountering workflow-related challenges when it comes to complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and preparing for the enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The COVID-19 global outbreak has presented additional…

Opinion: COVID-19 and Data Privacy: Health vs. Privacy

This article was published on March 26, 2020 on Business Law Today, a publication of the American Bar Association, Business Law Section at https://businesslawtoday.org/2020/03/covid-19-data-privacy-health-vs-privacy/. We received permission for Mr. Claypoole to republish for the ADCG community. The Black Death stole people’s…