BNA INSIGHTS: The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Guidance On Cybersecurity and Cyber Incident Disclosure

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on occasion provides disclosure guidance on topics of interest to the business and investment communities. The SEC said recently that it has observed “an increased level of attention focused on cyberattacks.”…

BNA INSIGHTS: Texas Amendments Purport to Apply Breach Notification Law to Cover 50 States, And to Expand Health Care Privacy Law’s Requirements and Scope of Applicability

In a bill quietly passed by the Texas Legislature at the end of May, the state made quite a change for businesses countrywide…

BNA INSIGHTS: High-Profile Breaches Spur Congressional Activity on Privacy, Data Security Policy

With a Republican-controlled House opposite a Democratic-controlled Senate, and presidential and congressional elections looming in less than sixteen months, few proposals of significance are capable of advancing to become law…

Obama Cybersecurity Legislative Proposal Includes Mandatory Breach Notice Provision

The White House May 12 unveiled a cybersecurity legislative proposal to protect computer networks and critical infrastructure that also includes a national data breach notification mandate for certain businesses…

BNA INSIGHTS: 2010 U.S. Cost of a Data Breach

Ponemon Institute’s 2010 report on the cost of a data breach for U.S. companies found that for the second year in a row, escalating data security threats and compliance pressures to combat them drove more organizations to respond so rapidly to data breaches that they paid significantly higher costs…

BNA INSIGHTS: Compliance Program Implications of Recent HIPAA Privacy Enforcement Activities

On Feb. 22, the Department of Health and Human Services’s (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced the first time use of civil monetary penalties (CMP) on a covered entity for violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule in the amount of $4.3 million…

BNA INSIGHTS: The Top 10 Privacy and Security Developments to Watch in 2011

The message for corporate America on privacy and security is simple: you only need to worry about privacy and security laws and rules if you have customers or employees.
So, on the chance that your company meets this threshold, what are the primary issues to be watching in 2011?…

Commerce Department Report Calls for New Office to Set Online Privacy Codes of Conduct

The Department of Commerce Dec. 16 released an online privacy report calling for a new office within the department to lead the development of self-regulatory privacy “codes of conduct” for U.S. businesses…

BNA INSIGHTS: Proposed Rule for Protecting Department of Defense Information on Unclassified Contractor Computer Systems: The Devil Is in the Details

Over the past twenty years, the world has seen technology develop at lightning speed. Exponential increases in our collective ability to communicate, access and process information have been created using the seemingly endless and ethereal collection of…

Many Oppose Giving Federal Trade Commission New Rules Power; Some Say Enforcement Standards Needed

Giving the Federal Trade Commission expanded rulemaking authority is generally opposed by business interests, said privacy and e-commerce…

Next Page »