The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit recently weighed in on the causes of action and damages that are (and are not) cognizable in a data breach case. In Anderson v. Hannaford Bros. Co., No 10-2384 (1st Cir. Oct. 20, 2011), the plaintiffs were customers of a grocery store chain.
October 2011
Securing Corporate Board Information
By Al Saikali on
Posted in Data Security
The findings of a recent Thomson Reuters Accelus survey entitled Better Board Governance: Communications, Security and Technology in a Global Landscape of Change raises questions about the level of security some corporations are taking (or failing to take) to protect sensitive and confidential corporate information transmitted between the corporate entity and its board members.
The…
Data Threats Posed By “Multi-Tenant” Infrastructure In The Cloud
By Al Saikali on
Posted in Cloud Computing
When a company decides to store its data in the cloud, one of the choices it must make is whether to store the information on physical resources devoted solely to its data and computing services, or share those resources with other entities who are using the same cloud provider’s services. At the risk of oversimplifying,…