Ransomware is a dynamically evolving risk, impacting organizations around the world with rapidly increasing loss frequency and severity. The insights on this risk are intended to focus conversations around loss preparation and risk management, and help guide well-informed cybersecurity investments.
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In a rapidly evolving virtual world, many family offices are revising or creating document retention practices to make sure they have secure access to critical personnel and family financial records. Through a series of FAQs and a checklist of what documents to retain, you can ensure that you have an up-to-date document retention policy as part of your document management process that will help mitigate concerns over data security and loss of key information.
Zelle® is a fast and easy way to send and receive money with people you know and trust, like your babysitter, your fellow PTA mom, your son’s soccer coach, or your coworker. Whether you just enrolled with Zelle® or have been an active user for a while, there are a few tips you should always keep in mind to ensure you are being safe when sending money.
In Canada, as in many other jurisdictions, data breaches that pose a real risk of harm to individuals must be reported. Apart from class action liability, data breaches can trigger large fines and important reputational consequences. While the recent court decisions in Canada—where theft of personal information does not by itself entitle the victim to damages—are favorable for firms that suffer data breaches, firms still need robust cybersecurity safeguards to lessen their changes of being hacked, as data breaches have other costly consequences.
As a young adult moving from college to your first real job and your own apartment, it's time to start adulting and being responsible for your own finanicial life, insurance coverage, and building your wealth. Here are a few items and easy steps to take that can help make sure you’re ready to succeed in the adult world.
There are a lot of upsides to using Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, but there are also a lot of risks. In this edition of Warner’s Emerging Media and Technologies Industry Update, Brian Wassom offers tips and guidance on what businesses can do to protect themselves against AI pitfalls that could put them in the legal hot seat. Watch the video to learn more about this emerging space and the risks associated with AI, including the big issues concerning privacy, copyright infringement, and accuracy.
In today’s environment, it’s crucial for a company to have a compliance management system (a CMS) to manage risks associated with changing product and service offerings and also helps manage new regulations that are enacted to address developments in the marketplace. In this podcast, Consumer Protection attorney Anthony DiResta identifies the three main components of a CMS: board/management oversight, an effective compliance/monitoring program, and an audit system. Mr.
Extreme weather conditions such as hurricanes in Florida to historic drought and rains in California are intensifying natural disaster losses both in size and frequency. By having a better understanding of your insurance coverage, you can insure against the risks your property may face—be they wildfires, hurricanes, deep freezes or floods. Even if you have a broad all-perils policy, it will have a list of exclusions that will be important to find additional coverage well before you think you might need them.
The growth of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence (AI) tools is not slowing down. From small startups to multinational corporations, employees across the spectrum are leveraging ChatGPT to enhance their productivity and streamline their workflows. Given the potential risks—including confidentiality and personal data and privacy violations—associated with the use of ChatGPT and similar tools, it’s crucial for companies to provide guidance to their employees.
With the increasingly complex patchwork of state privacy laws and regulatory compliance requirements, businesses operating in regulated industries, particularly in the financial services and healthcare sectors, need to ensure they are paying close attention to the details of the exemptions. Key differences in the exemptions built into these new state laws will result in many regulated businesses having drastically divergent compliance obligations on a state-by-state basis.