Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

In a letter responding to a request by Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, Chairman Mary Jo White of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) stated that she has asked her staff for a briefing on the efficacy of the SEC’s 2011 staff guidance on Cybersecurity disclosures, overall compliance with the […]

Kim Peretti, co-chair of the firm’s Security Incident Management and Response Team and former senior litigator for the Justice Department’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, was interviewed by BankInfoSecurity.com, where she discussed the cyber heist scheme that involved $45 million withdrawn from ATMs worldwide. Peretti offered insights, lessons learned from global cash-out schemes and security […]

Kim Peretti, co-chair of the firm’s Security Incident Management and Response Team and former senior litigator for the Justice Department’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, was quoted in The New York Times article, “In Hours, Thieves Took $45 Million in A.T.M. Scheme.” Ms. Peretti said the significance in this data breach is that they are […]

On May 17, 2013, Kim Peretti will serve as planning chair and Todd McClelland will be a featured speaker in the program entitled “The Top Five Data Security Threats in 2013: Knowing and Understanding the Legal Risks,” by ALI-CLE. Data security remains the elephant in the room for many corporate legal departments, law firms and outside counsel. […]

In the newly proposed version of the Critical Infrastructure Protection (“CIP”) Reliability Standards, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) is seeking, for the first time, to create mandatory cybersecurity protections for the bulk electric system (“BES”), which includes electric utilities. The new standards would classify each BES Cyber System as Low, Medium or High Impact […]