Why more companies are employing bossware to monitor employee performance and why it could be a privacy concern for those working at home and using their own devices

Having come into full effect on March 21, 2020, the New York SHIELD (Stop Hacking and Improve Electronic Data Security) Act updates previous data security laws and creates more obligations and potential concerns for companies and their cyber insurers. We asked Laurie Kamaiko of Saul, Ewing, Arnstein, and Lehr law firm about this new legislation…

The COVID-19 outbreak has necessitated the creation of a mobile workforce practically overnight. Yet this sudden change raises cybersecurity and privacy issues that companies must now reckon with. The webinar “COVID-19 Emerging Issues: Managing Cyber Risks of a Remote Workforce and Global Privacy Concerns,” presented by NetDiligence and Arete Incident Response on March 24th, addressed…

A Q&A with Matt Barrett, COO of Cyber Engineering Services Incorporated (CyberESI) First introduced in 2014, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) CyberSecurity Framework (CSF) has since become a widely held best practice far beyond the commerce industry. To get some perspective on the framework and how it’s evolved over the past five…

A Q&A with Thom Rickert of Trident Public Risk Solutions Thom Rickert, vice president, emerging risks specialist for Trident Public Risk Solutions – Argo Group US, has specialized in public entity insurance for 35 years. In light of recent public entity cyber breaches like the ransomware attack we saw in Atlanta in March 2018, Rickert…