One of the lessons of crisis management is that you don’t make predictions during a crisis. Not to say that the recent UK vote to leave the EU (“Brexit”) is a crisis per se, but just that it is a period of uncertainty. So what impact will Brexit have on data security, privacy, governance, and…
DetailsA federal court in Virginia on June 23 may have put the final stake in the heart of constitutionally protected privacy rights online. The case itself was simple enough – in an effort to investigate the murky and disreputable “business” of sharing of child pornography on the Dark Web that is accessible mostly through TOR…
DetailsIn 1981, R. Foster Winans was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, writing the “Heard it on the Street” column. As a diligent reporter, he would find out information about companies, and then publish this information in the Journal. He wasn’t an “insider” of any company except the company that owned the Journal. When…
DetailsA recent espionage prosecution in West Palm Beach, Florida demonstrates that encryption may not be the panacea that organizations think it is. So rather than relying on encryption alone, companies need to adopt and maintain strategies that continue to provide layered security. After every data breach, we hear the same mantra, “If only the data…
DetailsA new vulnerability in the Android OS points out not only problems with hardware and software generally, but with our bug bounty and patch management system for mass-market consumer products – you know, exactly the kinds of products that most need a patch management program. The fact that the critical vulnerability was discovered and reported…
DetailsOn May 7, 2015 the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York issued a major ruling on the legality of the NSA’s controversial program to gather information about tens of millions of telecom users in order to search for “relevant” records relating to terrorism, espionage and foreign relations. In the lawsuit ACLU v.…
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