Cybersecurity Litigation: Consumer Data Protection and Privacy - Hardcover

Samuel Rosenthal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1617464856 ISBN 13: 9781617464850

Publisher: Bloomberg BNA, 2015

Synopsis

The unparalleled growth of the Internet is matched only by the unparalleled explosion of statutes, regulations, rules, judicial opinions and commentaries dealing with cybersecurity. Cybersecurity is now a vitally important issue for any company handling sensitive consumer data. Attorneys and the companies they represent need to know what they are facing in terms of potential liability, and how they can mitigate those risks. Cybersecurity Litigation: Consumer Data Protection and Privacy is useful not only to those who are already in litigation, but also to those who are advising on or setting up cybersecurity programs, and trying to determine whether these programs are satisfactory. Cybersecurity Litigation: Consumer Data Protection and Privacy contains in-depth discussions of: the liability facing companies, boards of directors and other employees responsible for cybersecurity and the recent cases applying those principles necessary internal controls a wide range of litigation issues, tactics, and strategies, including standing, damages, and affirmative defenses such as causation a summary of the statutory schemes and governmental guidance that govern or advise on this new and emerging area of law special chapters focusing on the financial services and health care industries which face additional challenges This treatise is designed to assist lawyers and clients in avoiding litigation by taking appropriate precautions, or if they cannot avoid litigation, responding to lawsuits in the most effective way possible.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomberg BNA
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1617464856
• ISBN 13: 9781617464850
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 680
• Editor: Samuel Rosenthal