by William A. Boeck | July 29, 2019 | Cyber Insurance, GDPR, International, Regulatory
Does your website include Facebook “Like” buttons? Are you subject to the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)? If you answer yes to both, then your site probably violates the GDPR. We know this because of a decision issued today by the...
by William A. Boeck | February 20, 2019 | Cyber Attack, Cyber Insurance
“What If They Gave a War and Nobody Came?” I’ve loved the naïve optimism in that question ever since I saw it on bumper stickers when I was a kid in the 1960s. Lately though I’ve been thinking that this delightful question ironically describes cyber warfare. In a...
by William A. Boeck | November 29, 2018 | International, Regulatory
Since the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became effective on May 25, 2018 companies have been concerned with the potential size of fines that could be issued. Now that the first fines have been issued, we can begin to assess what the enforcement...
by William A. Boeck | April 16, 2018 | Data Breach, Internet of Things
The risks inherent in the Internet of Things (IoT) are becoming better known. The denial of service attack launched using the Mirai botnet consisting of hundreds of thousands of IoT devices is a good illustration of what can happen as a result of such devices being...
by William A. Boeck | February 26, 2018 | Cyber Insurance, Data Breach, Healthcare, Regulatory
No sooner did I publish my last post on regulatory coverage than I learned about a settlement between the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) in the US Department of Health and Human Services and Fresenius Medical Care North America (Fresenius). The settlement is noteworthy...
