Employers Should Use Revised FCRA Disclosure for Employees and Job Applicants
Employers who use consumer reports as part of their decision-making process in the hiring, promotion or firing of employees should note the attached “A Summary of Your Rights under the Fair Credit...
View ArticleLegal Alert: New Regulation Under Cybersecurity Executive Order
President Obama yesterday issued an Executive Order to address the growing cyber threat to the Nation’s “critical infrastructure,” a term broadly defined to potentially cover natural gas and oil...
View ArticleOut With the Old, in With the New – CIP Version 5 on the Horizon
Electric utilities and other generation and transmission companies will be subject to new cybersecurity standards under a proposed rule issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). FERC...
View ArticleLegal Alert: New York Department of Financial Services Issues 308 Request on...
On May 28, 2013, the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) sent inquiries to 31 of the largest life, health and property/casualty insurance companies pursuant to its authority under...
View ArticleSEC Releases Results of 2014 Cybersecurity Exam Sweep
On February 3, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a Risk Alert prepared by its Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) that summarizes the results of a sweep of more...
View ArticlePCI DSS – What It Is and Why It Is Relevant to Your Business
Increasingly, companies are raising questions about PCI-DSS and its applicability to their businesses. This Legal Alert summarizes the basic aspects of PCI-DSS and its application....By: Mark Thibodeaux
View ArticleEU-US Privacy Shield: European Union and U.S. Reach Agreement in Principle...
On February 2, 2016, the European Commission (EC) and the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) announced that they had reached agreement on a new data transfer safe harbor arrangement for the...
View ArticleSignificant WiFi vulnerability exposed
What is the problem? Belgian researchers have published information about a vulnerability in the most popular WiFi encryption protocol that makes monitoring of all communications possible, except those...
View ArticleNIST Releases Second Draft of Revised Cybersecurity Framework
Revising its guidance on internal assessments and highlighting the importance of managing cybersecurity within supply chains, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released the...
View ArticleFacebook’s settlements with the Federal Government - Key takeaways for all...
On July 24, 2019, both the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced landmark settlements with Facebook. The agreements were significant not only because...
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