The Primacy of Privacy
Security language is often used in the context of protecting privacy, but what precisely is privacy and why does it need protecting? Most people have an intuition that privacy is somehow associated with personally identifiable information (PII), but it is deceptively difficult to concretize that link. The divulgement of something as seemingly innocuous as a…
The Growing Legal Costs of Cyber Liability
Defense law firms that work on cyber liability panels can expect to receive an average of $8,600 in legal consultation fees, according to cost estimates from Chubb recently reported in Florida Trend magazine. Total costs to respond to a cybersecurity claim can be as high as $73,300 according to Chubb, which based its information on…
Cyberinsurance Policy Considerations
The concept of purchasing cyberinsurance to insure against cyber threats seems fairly simple at first glance. Many companies fear the financial costs and reputational harm that often results from a cyber security breach and seek to mitigate these risks through insurance. However, the actual usage of cyber insurance tends to raise a lot of questions,…
Ransom-Wary
As an information security professional with DLD Lawyers, cybersecurity threats often keep me up at night. One of those threats, ransomware, has been receiving a large amount of press lately for claiming public victims in Georgia and our own corporate home state of Florida. Ransomware is a kind of malicious software, or malware, that uses…
