In past years, when law firms suffered data breaches, it was often because they put themselves in the direct crosshairs of powerful and influential adversaries. For example, four years ago a Chinese group hacked into the files of the Washington D.C.-based firm Wiley Rein seeking confidential details related to several high-profile anti-dumping and unfair trade cases the… Read More
The GW Center for Cyber and Homeland Security hosted its strategic conference, Securing our Future, on campus yesterday. The all-day event featured presentations from a wide range of defense, counterterrorism, cybersecurity, and homeland security experts, including Scott Kaine, CEO of Delta Risk LLC, who joined a panel discussion, Public-Private Sector Coordination on Cybersecurity. Other panels… Read More
Playing the Blame Game Companies around the world lost an estimated $445 billion due to cybercrimes last year. Despite the financial hit these organizations sustained, a survey by Goldsmiths revealed that more than 90 percent of executives and other C-Suite leaders aren’t prepared to handle future attacks. However, alarmingly, 40 percent of those leaders say… Read More
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