Our attorneys can help you navigate the rapidly evolving area of cyber liability and data privacy law. We can help you review policies and ensure legal compliance in the ever-changing world of privacy regulation. We’ll guide you through the uneasy and uncertain moments, from discovering a data breach through investigation, assessment, and resolution.
What We Do
Our attorneys will detect your exposures and help you recognize obligations to protect against them. We’ll counsel you on proactive measures you can take to limit your exposure to threats. We’ll also examine your existing operations with a critical eye and help create an all-important breach plan. During a cyber-liability case our attorneys can help:
- Determine whether notice is required after a breach and work with you to ensure that regulatory requirements are met
- Analyze privacy policies
- Audit and assess your cyber insurance needs
- Draft and review contracts with your business partners, including cloud service providers
- Defend your company in claims or actions resulting from a data breach
- Counsel you on how to protect your company against breaches caused by employees or by third parties through creative contract drafting and establishing formal intellectual property rights.
Our Experience
With more than 30 years of experience in the healthcare and insurance industries, our team offers unique perspective to counsel clients on their responsibilities with the management of healthcare data. Specifically, we counsel on HIPAA, the HITECH Act, federal regulations and various state laws that impact the use and disclosure of health data. Further, our attorneys regularly speak on cyber liability and data breach issues facing businesses and insurance carriers today. Select presentations include:
- Best Practices: Responding to a Data Breach
- Checklist of Federal and State Regulations for Cyber-liability Compliance
- NC Identity Theft Protection Act: What Risk Managers Need to Know
- Cyber-liability Policies: Coverage Issues
Our Network
Our Cyber Liability and Privacy Practice Group also has an extensive network of other professional service providers who can assist you with the often-immediate fallout that can occur with data breaches, including:
- Notice requirements
- Fines
- Business interruption
- Reputation damage
- Incident response
Helpful Links
- FTC “Start with Security” Guidance
- DHHS HIPAA Breach Notification Rule
- National Conference of State Legislatures’ Security Breach Notification Laws Page (50-state survey)
- Verizon 2018 Data Breach Information Report
- 2018 Cost of Data Breach Study
- NC Security Freeze Information
- FTC Data Security Home Page
- Written Information Security Protocol (WISP) Checklist from Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation
- Chapter 75 of the North Carolina General Statutes
- Security for Cloud Computing: 10 Steps to Ensure Success
- Copier Data Security: A Guide for Businesses | Federal Trade Commission
- US Treasury Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Risk Management Guidance to National Banks and Federal Savings Associations
Contact us today for more information!
For more information on how we can help you, contact Cyber Liability and Privacy Practice Group chair Marshall Wall.
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