Hey Everybody, just wanted to let you know that I’m making some long-term changes to the blog. We are going to be porting it over to my firm’s new website when it’s ready (which, I hope to be sometime this year), and we will be integrating the blog with the firm more. When I first …
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Data Mapping: It’s A Spreadsheet.
There are few things that niche industries love more than developing their own lingo. Those of us old enough to remember the tech boom of the late-90s/early 2000s probably also remember hearing that everything was a “paradigm-shift.” Eventually, this phrase morphed into everything being a “gamechanger.” Today, business people love to talk about whether X …
Syracuse Startup Podcast
Hi Everybody. I launched a podcast called “Syracuse Startup” which interviews entrepreneurs in Syracuse to share insights, challenges, victories, etc. in our chosen fields. My first guest is a friend of mine, Eric Maley, of Upstate Agents, talking about how he got into real estate. Look out for new episodes approximately once a month. Please …
Is Personal Information About my Adversary Protected Too?
Is the practice of collecting an adversary’s social security number compliant with New York cybersecurity law? Well, it depends…
Vendor Management
I just completed a whirlwind, virtual tour of New York bar associations (and boy are my arms tired… ) to teach CLEs regarding New York’s new SHIELD. (Thanks to the New York State Bar Association, the Broome County Bar Association, the Tompkins County Bar Association and the Onondaga County Bar Association!) One of the issues …
Who’s The Boss?
I like to talk a lot about how the NY SHIELD Act puts proactive requirements on every business that handles New Yorkers’ personal information. Meaning that the information businesses (like law firms) store about their clients is subject to the SHIELD Act. No, literally. I just gave two presentations on this issue in the last …
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Working from Home
I should preface this post by noting that it has almost nothing to do with cybersecurity… What a strange time. 2020 has been, just… a really weird year so far. First of all, it’s hard to believe that we are about one-third of the way through the year. Next week it will be May. Most …
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The Big Day
This past Saturday, March 21st, was the day the New York SHIELD Act required all businesses with New Yorkers’ personal information to comply with new “reasonable safeguard” requirements, proportionate to the size and scope of the business. My firm has been focused on this day for a while now. But the world feels, somehow, vastly …
Is Cybersecurity Insurance a Shield or a Sword?
Just some quick thoughts on cyber insurance. As insurers get more sophisticated in how they cover cyber incidents, businesses need to get more savvy as well. This isn’t a zero sum game. As a business owner, you NEED insurance. And as an insurer, the carrier wants to calculate the risk as accurately as possible. In …
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All your hospital are belong to us.
This morning, I ran across a 2014 article on Wired.com, which goes on to explain that hospital medical devices and other related gadgets (what we would today call IoT or the “Internet of Things”), are shockingly easy to access via the wireless network, and vulnerable to abuse by would be hackers. For some reason, the …
Into The Cyber Breach 