Cybersecurity Law | Dickinson Law

Data Breach, PCI Standards, and the $6.2 Million Contract Clause

Posted on 06/19/2019 at 02:25 PM by John Lande

Categories: Cybersecurity Law, John Lande

Tagged As: data breach, financial fraud, First Data Merchant Services, Iowa cybersecurity law, MasterCard, payment card industry, Visa

Payment card system breaches can cause millions of dollars in damages. Consumer losses are generally minimal, becau...

Swimming in Cybersecurity Alphabet Soup

Posted on 06/12/2019 at 09:10 AM by John Lande

Categories: Cybersecurity Law, John Lande

Tagged As: cybersecurity law, FFIEC, NIST, NAIC, NYDFS, FSSCC

Well-intentioned organizations trying to implement cybersecurity best practices can quickly become discouraged by the oc...

Don’t Let Cyber-Vulnerabilities Be Eternal

Posted on 06/03/2019 at 08:35 AM by John Lande

Categories: Business Law, Cybersecurity Law, John Lande

Tagged As: CISO, cyber attack, Equifax, Iowa cybersecurity law, Microsoft, patch, software vulnerability, Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report

One of the easiest ways to prevent a cybersecurity incident is to ensure that software patches are implemented. Despite...

Bank to Customer: We’re Not Your Insurance Company

Posted on 05/22/2019 at 04:04 PM by John Lande

Categories: Banking Law, Cybersecurity Law, Employment & Labor Law, John Lande

Tagged As: Iowa banking law, Iowa cybersecurity law, Iowa Employment & Labor Law, UCC, Uniform Commercial Code

Cybersecurity incidents routinely grab headlines, and for good reason. These incidents often lead to exposure of large v...

Coming Soon to a State Near You: Cybersecurity Regulation

Posted on 05/09/2019 at 12:50 PM by John Lande

Categories: Banking Law, Commercial Litigation, Cybersecurity Law, John Lande

Tagged As: Iowa banking law, Iowa cybersecurity law, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, New York Department of Financial Services, Security Framework

Ever since the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) enacted its cybersecurity regulation for...

HHS Releases Cybersecurity Threat Mitigation Guide

Posted on 05/06/2019 at 01:36 PM by John Lande

Categories: Banking Law, Commercial Litigation, Cybersecurity Law, John Lande

Tagged As: Iowa banking law, Iowa Commercial Litigation, Iowa cybersecurity law, phishing, Department of Heath and Human Services

The Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) has released the “Health Industry Cybersecu...

Fraudsters May Determine Whether You Have Cyber-Insurance

Posted on 04/26/2019 at 10:56 AM by John Lande

Categories: Cybersecurity Law, John Lande

Tagged As: cyber insurance, cyber insurance coverage, cyber losses, Iowa cybersecurity law

Many organizations are surprised to learn in the wake of a cyber-incident that their “cyber” insurance does...

Auto-Update Leads to Auto-Hack

Posted on 03/29/2019 at 11:23 AM by John Lande

Categories: Cybersecurity Law, John Lande

Tagged As: automatic updates, cyber security, cybersecurity law, data breach, malicious software, patch

News broke recently that hackers exploited a backdoor to as many as 1 million ASUS computers by compromising the ASUS au...

The $2 Million Phish

Posted on 02/04/2019 at 12:48 PM by John Lande

Categories: Banking Law, Commercial Litigation, Cybersecurity Law, John Lande

Tagged As: fraudelent emails, cyber insurance, Iowa banking law, Iowa Commercial Litigation, Iowa cybersecurity law, phishing

Earlier this year, the Tokyo fish market grabbed headlines when a blue fin tuna sold for a record $3 million. Less well...

SEC: No Really, ICOs Are Securities

Posted on 01/11/2019 at 12:42 PM by John Lande

Categories: Banking Law, Commercial Litigation, Cybersecurity Law, Intellectual Property Law, John Lande

Tagged As: cyber security, ICO, intellectual property, Iowa banking law, Iowa Commercial Litigation

A common trope is that technology is evolving too fast for the law to keep up. Companies like Uber, Tesla, and Coinbase...

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