Cybersecurity Preparedness Is Now a Business Requirement

How can companies make cybersecurity preparedness an integral part of their business practices? During a recent panel at ALM’s cyberSecure event, JoAnn Carlton, general counsel and corporate secretary at Bank of America Merchant Services, Edward J. McAndrew, Assistant U.S. Attorney and Cybercrime Coordinator at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and Mercedes Tunstall, a partner at Pillsbury, gave their perspectives on steps companies can take to enhance cybersecurity. They discussed how the evolving nature of cyber attacks requires evolving business models. Simply establishing an incident response plan is not enough: companies must build privacy preparedness across the organization and engage in a continuous cycle of planning and response to stay ahead of cyber threats. See also “Coordinating Legal and Security Teams in the Current Cybersecurity Landscape (Part One of Two)” (Jul. 1, 2015); “The Challenge of Coordinating the Legal and Security Teams in the Current Cyber Landscape (Part Two)” (Jul. 15, 2015).

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