Mitigating a Data Breach One way many law firms seek to mitigate risks is by buying insurance coverage. However, most insurance policies don’t cover cyber-related damages. To get proper coverage, firms must typically purchase supplemental insurance policies specifically designed for this. Finding the right cyber insurance for your firm can be challenging, however. Given that… Read More
Stephanie Ewing-Ottmers, CISSP, CISM, PMP, (left) a cybersecurity expert with Delta Risk, was a guest on The Source Texas Public Radio show with Carole Meador, CEO of DeCypher, to discuss the gender gap in cybersecurity. In the past year, hundreds of thousands of cybersecurity jobs went unfilled in both the public and private sector. With… Read More
The Internet has been ablaze in the past week with articles and discussions about what appears to be the biggest data leak in history: 11.5 million documents (2.6 terabytes of information) that were leaked from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca—colloquially called the “Panama Papers.” This data leak is larger than WikiLeaks in 2010 and… Read More
“ALERT: “Criminal-Seeking-Hacker” Requests Network Breach for Insider Trading Operation” – read the title of a recent FBI alert sent to law firms. The mastermind at the root of this notice allegedly sought a hacker on an online forum to help him break into several large law firms. The attacker’s intent, apparently, was to gain access… Read More
Delta Risk and the Chertoff Group will be in San Francisco this week for another 2016 RSA Conference. Here’s a quick look at just a few of the events on our agenda. Tuesday, March 1, 2016 Paul Rosenzweig, a Senior Advisor for The Chertoff Group and former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S…. Read More