On February 7, Jim Harvey, co-chair of the firm’s Security Incident Management & Response team, will participate as a speaker in the ICLE’s 2014 Banking Law Program. Mr. Harvey, along with co-panelist Susan Koski, Chief Information Security Officer of Synovus Bank, will speak on “Cybersecurity-Managing Risks and Allocation of Loss”. This topic is one of […]
Data Security
Kim Peretti and Dominique Shelton Quoted in “Privacy Cases to Watch in 2014”
Kim Peretti and Dominique Shelton, partners in the firm’s Privacy & Data Security Group, were quoted in a Law360 article discussing the privacy cases to watch in 2014. Peretti noted that the top item on most privacy attorneys’ watch list is how judges will respond to arguments by Wyndham Worldwide Corp. and LabMD Inc., two high-profile […]
FTC Denies LabMD’s Motions to Stay Pending Administrative Action
In the ongoing Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) proceeding against LabMD, Inc. (“Lab MD”), the FTC recently denied LabMD’s attempts to stay the proceeding pending the outcome of the company’s separate requests for injunctive relief pending before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and petition for review before the U.S. Court of Appeals for […]
NIST’s Preliminary Cybersecurity Framework Could Have Broad Implications for Critical, Non-Critical Infrastructure Alike
On October 22, 2013, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released its Preliminary Cybersecurity Framework (“Framework”), marking one of the final steps in creating the “voluntary” Framework envisioned in an Obama Administration Executive Order (EO) issued earlier this year. That EO, which was designed to strengthen the cybersecurity of the United States’ critical […]
New Malaysian Data Privacy Law
After enactment in 2010, Malaysia’s Personal Data Protection Act, and implementing regulations, finally went into effect on November 15, 2013. The law applies to the processing of “personal data” by entities operating in Malaysia but generally does not apply to data processed entirely outside of Malaysia.[1] Additionally, official registration requirements will extend to many classes […]