As CorpCounsel has discussed on these web pages before, 2011 has been a banner year for cyber attacks on company networks and corporate data breaches involving sensitive customer information. There’s been much discussion of how government and the private sector need to put their heads together on cybersecurity measures, just as laws governing data privacy continue to proliferate around the globe.
In-house lawyers need to stay ahead of these evolving issues in the New Year, says Alan Brill, who has liaised with a number of counsel as the senior managing director of the cybersecurity and information assurance division at the consultancy Kroll. And more often than he would have predicted, Brill says, it’s counsel who point out the digital red flags to their companies.
Having put together a “cybersecurity forecast” for the new year, Brill points to some of the specific internal and regulatory concerns that counsel will face in 2012. “It is far easier—in my experience—for counsel to prevent a problem than to solve a problem after it has occurred,” he says.
The Kroll analysis highlights areas where companies will be particularly vulnerable. Those include rapidly changing mobile technologies—think iPads and Android smartphones, all loaded with apps—which are often deployed by an organization before they can be adequately secured.
via Preparing In-House Counsel for a New Year of Cybersecurity Threats.
