After a Cyber Breach, What Laws Are in Play and Who Is Enforcing Them?

Recent reports detail a breathtaking and unrelenting rise in cyber breaches, with five malware events occurring every second, and 60% of successful attackers able to compromise an organization within minutes.  But the law has not kept pace with technological innovation.  There is no single uniform law protecting individual privacy, nor one that governs all of a company’s obligations or liabilities regarding data security and privacy.  As Jenny Durkan and Alicia Cobb, a partner and associate, respectively, at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, detail in a guest post, any business that suffers a significant cyber breach almost certainly will face not only multiple civil suits, but multiple investigations by federal and state authorities.  The authors provide a roadmap to the key authorities and the patchwork of relevant rules and regulations.

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