On Friday December 2nd the President’s Commission on Enhancing Cybersecurity (“Commission”) released their long-awaited Report on Securing and Growing the Digital Economy. The nonpartisan Commission was created in April by President Obama with the objective of examining U.S. cybersecurity policy…
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NIST Releases Comprehensive Cyber Security Guidelines for the Internet of Things
As the Internet of Things continues to grow and expand, the fact that guidance on security measures and protections is a necessity has become increasingly evident. Recently, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a lengthy set of…
Chris Correa Isn’t Billy Beane and This Isn’t Moneyball
The lights going on and off within the head of former St. Louis Cardinals scouting director Chris Correa were once probably flickering more actively than the lights inside of The Staples Center just before the Los Angeles Lakers take to…
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Posted in Cyber crimes, Cyberattack, Data Breach, Data Security, Privacy, Standards
Posted in Cyber crimes, Cyberattack, Data Breach, Data Security, Privacy, Standards
Wyndham Settles with FTC
Last month, Wyndham Worldwide Corp. settled its lengthy civil case with the Federal Trade Commission. The suit began in 2012, when the FTC sued Wyndham and three of its subsidiaries, alleging three data breaches between 2008 and 2010 were a…
Life After Death (of Safe Harbor) – EU Data Protection in the Wake of Schrems
One month after the landmark decision in Schrems vs. Data Protection Commissioner (C-365/14), the European Commission (Commission) has issued guidelines, in the form of a Communication, regarding the transfer of personal data from the EU to the U.S. As we…
The End of Safe Harbor – What Does it Mean?
This past Tuesday, in the groundbreaking decision of Schrems vs. Data Protection Commissioner (C-362/14), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) invalidated the Safe Harbor provision of the EU Commission, 2000/560C/EC. The Safe Harbor program was the easiest…
U.S. Appeals Court Upholds the FTC’s Authority to Police Cybersecurity Practices
In a highly anticipated and precedential opinion issued earlier this week, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the FTC’s authority to regulate corporate cybersecurity. The decision in Federal Trade Commission v Wyndham Worldwide Corp et al., addressed whether the FTC has…
EMV Credit Cards Are Coming, But Consumers Must Stay Vigilant
Major credit card companies, including Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express, have announced plans to switch to EMV cards in the United States over the course of 2015. Nearly eighty other countries around the world have already made the switch…
Posted in Data Security, Standards
A New Kind of Architecture: The President’s New Agenda on Cybersecurity
“[I]f we don’t put in place the kind of architecture that can prevent these attacks from taking place, this is not just going to be affecting movies, this is going to be affecting our entire economy in ways that are…
Posted in Legislation, Standards
Voluntary But Valuable: Using NIST’s New Cybersecurity Framework
On February 12, 2014, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Version 1.0, or more simply, the Cybersecurity Framework. The Framework is the culmination of a year-long process set in motion…
Posted in Standards
