With data breaches hitting organizations large and small, it “doesn’t matter whether the intrusion is attributable to malicious activity or simple employee or third-party negligence; the effect is the same,” writes Traub Lieberman Staus & Shrewsberry attorney Richard Bortnick. If a breach incident does hit, to “whom should you make your first call? A cyber lawyer.” In this post for Privacy Perspectives, Bortnick argues, “Although vendors and IT specialists can promote themselves as having the appropriate knowledge and training to teach and implement best practices, they do not possess the critical protections afforded by the attorney-client relationship.”
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