This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to the use of cookies. Visit our updated privacy and cookie policy to learn more.
This Website Uses Cookies By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to our cookie policy. Learn MoreThis website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to the use of cookies. Visit our updated privacy and cookie policy to learn more.
Jim Halpert, a partner based in Washington, DC, co-chairs DLA Piper’s US Cybersecurity practice and co-chairs the Global Data Protection, Privacy and Security practice. He helped draft the NACD Cyber-Risk Oversight Handbook and most of the state data security and breach notice laws in the US. Reach him at jim.halpert@dlapiper.com. This article first appeared in DLA Piper’s Intellectual Property and Technology News (US) Q1, 2015.
Cybersecurity has become a top-tier risk for U.S. and multinational organizations. It is only a matter of time before a determined hacker will penetrate your organization’s system and successfully exfiltrate some data. (Indeed, this has most likely already happened, even if you are told it has not.)