Data Privacy

Law firm Akerman this week announced the launch of its newly created Data Law Practice, and the expansion of the firm’s varied services in the increasingly business critical areas of information governance, e-discovery, and data privacy and security. Details inside.

Compliance officers have enough scrambling to do after a data breach. Not understanding the steps to take, or not being in proper position to take them, only makes matters worse. Inside, guest columnist John Reed Stark walks through all the steps your company needs to take—including those to take before a breach—to recover as quickly and efficiently as possible.

AccelOps today announced new enhancements to its integrated IT security and operational intelligence platform that enables IT to rapidly detect, prevent, and respond to malicious attacks. Details inside.

What are the top threats to the U.S. financial system? In a new report, the Financial Stability Oversight Council cites cyber-security, financial innovations, and high-frequency trading among the problems regulators must address. Critics fret, however, that the agency wants “to get rid of the capital markets and replace everything with bank-like regulation”—which, they say, is a serious risk unto itself. More inside.

Actiance, a compliance, security, archiving and e-Discovery provider for critical business communications, announced that it now supports Skype for Business and Yammer. With Actiance’s extended support, companies can control, monitor and archive all their critical communications as they move to the cloud and as they adopt new communication channels. Details inside.

Image: For the first time in years, Washington is abuzz with proposed changes to cyber-security disclosure, both in Congress and at the SEC. Above all, experts say, is a need to clarify terminology and expectations. “There should be minimum standards for what that security should be across the board,” says Jasper Graham of Darktrace, a cyber-security firm. Our rundown of what’s likely to come is inside.

Amassing terabytes of data is easy; for most businesses, managing those valuable—and sometimes very risky—assets is the hard part. A successful data governance initiative, experts say, isn’t a project you can hand off to the IT department or solve with a software purchase. Compliance, audit, and risk executives all need to work with business and IT leaders to craft a useful governance program. How to get started? Read on.

Weaver, an independent accounting firm, recently launched a new IT advisory service that provides payment card industry (PCI) data security assessments. Brian Thomas and Brittany George, both in Weaver’s IT advisory services, have met the necessary requirements to earn the Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) certification from the PCI Security Standards Council. Details inside.

Brainloop, a provider of SaaS technology for the secure storage, collaboration, and exchange of confidential documents and files, announced that the ITAR-compliant Brainloop Secure Dataroom is now available for small to medium sized organizations.