Cybersecurity
Cyber risk issues have been a constant thorn in the side of most GCs for many years. Now Covid-19 and Brexit have exacerbated the problem.
The ever-changing world of data protection has lost none of its pace. Exacerbated by the almost global transition to a life online, homes became offices, Zoom became the go-to meeting place and Teams became the world’s virtual water cooler. With this increased reliance on technology to support remote working and digital communications, the need to protect corporate data and confidential information while working from home has become vitally important.
It comes as no surprise that, with remote working, the likelihood of data breaches and non-compliance with data legislation has increased. According to Ruth Boardman, co-head of Bird & Bird’s international privacy and data protection group, ‘Companies have been facing increasing demands from the volume of data protection queries for some time. There is a real sense of the pace of this increasing though. The demands on in-house teams are significant and many of our clients are looking to increase the size of their in-house teams dealing with data privacy as a result’.
