Recently by Phyllis B. Sumner
Cybersecurity in the Boardroom: Lessons learned from working with boards and senior management
Phyllis Sumner, who leads King & Spalding’s Data, Privacy & Security practice, spends more and more of her time these days counseling corporate boards and senior executives on the perils and pitfalls of data security. She explains her work and the lessons she draws from her...
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A New Era for EU Data Privacy?
The new President of the European Commission, Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker, has declared that data protection is “a fundamental right of particular importance in the digital age.” This push for data protection rights is apparent in the General Data Protection Regulation (the “...
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Russian Hackers Stockpile Over One Billion Internet Credentials
A Russian hacking group reportedly engaged in the largest-known cyber attack by amassing over 1.2 billion unique sets of usernames and passwords and 500 million e-mail addresses from more than 420,000 web and FTP sites. The attack was uncovered by Hold Security, an information security company...
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A Soup-To-Nuts Approach To Cybersecurity
Editor: Describe your cybersecurity practice. Sumner: My practice is actually broader than just cybersecurity. It includes privacy, data management and information security, but cybersecurity is a very large part of those areas. Cybersecurity has received a great deal of focus because of the...
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Attacked On All Fronts: FTC Defends Authority To Sue Companies That Are Victims Of Hacking For “Unfair” Security Practices
Getting hacked by Russian hackers three times in two years has turned out to be only half of the problem for Wyndham Worldwide Corporation. The Federal Trade Commission, in a broad interpretation of the authority granted to it by Congress, brought suit against the hotel franchiser on August 9,...
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