Cybersecurity for in-house counsel
It’s a hot topic for any corporation that wants to avoid being splashed across the press… or dragged through the courts. We speak to GCs in the US, Asia and the UK to find out their top tips for avoiding the dreaded data breach.
A cyber attacker could be anyone. A disgruntled employee with access to data, a ‘hacktivist’ with a social or political axe to grind, an organised criminal seeking profit, or a nation state with a cyber army primed for sophisticated cyberespionage missions. They could be anywhere, silently gathering data before slipping out undetected, or hiding in a gap in the supply chain, waiting to shut down the organisation’s service. Terminology such as ‘phishing’, ‘social engineering’ and ‘advanced persistent threat’ has invaded the lexicon of the modern corporation.
