The Clorox Company (Clorox) recently filed a $380 million lawsuit against Cognizant, its IT services provider. In this article, Ngaire Guzzetti, discusses the importance of contract due diligence, continual testing of controls and the growing threat that is supply chain risk. The 2023 Breach and the 2025 Lawsuit Manufacturer The Clorox Company (Clorox) recently filed a…
Camilo Artiga-Purcell flags up some of the cybersecurity, data protection and privilege risks associated with client-intake forms. Solicitors and barristers across England and Wales have embraced digital transformation, adopting sophisticated case management systems, e-discovery platforms, and document automation tools. Yet many overlook a critical vulnerability: the web forms used to collect confidential client and prospective…
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Rachael Gibbons and Rory Coutts pick out the key points of the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill currently in Parliament. The Background to the New Bill On 12 November, the Government introduced the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill (“Bill”) to Parliament to update the UK’s current cybersecurity law, The Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018…
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An infographic compiled by Fiona Phillips outlining the proposals for dealing with ransomware attacks following the consultation earlier this year….
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Fiona Phillips, guest editor of our Cybersecurity special issue and chair of the SCL Cybersecurity Group, stresses the importance of cyber for lawyers and for wider society As Chair of the Cybersecurity and Law Committee for the Society for Computers and Law, I am honoured to introduce this special edition devoted to one of the…
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Mark Ryan of SES Secure maps the use of software escrow to some of the requirements proposed in the Cyber Security & Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill…
Methods for delay analysis were largely developed for construction projects. That was fine for IT under waterfall delivery, but the strain is starting to show as agile and other iterative methods dominate. William Hooper asks, what are the implications for your clients’ projects? This article designed for IT lawyers is an abbreviated form of the…
Chris Marsden with an acerbic look at the origins and, perhaps unintended, consequences of Australia’s social media ban for under 16’s which comes into force today. I write this on the eve of Australia’s under-16 social media ban, which stops all Australians using social media unless they can prove they are over 16. Unsurprisingly, it…
Coimisiún na Meán’s Investigations Team has launched two formal investigations into the TikTok and LinkedIn platforms under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA). The investigations will assess if the two platforms have contravened Articles 16(1), 16(2)(c) and Article 25 of the DSA. In September 2024, Coimisiún na Meán’s Platform Supervision Division reviewed online providers’ compliance…
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According to research, 97% of young people go online every day and 78% of 13 to 17-year-olds check their devices at least hourly. At the same time, one in four minors display behavioural patterns mirroring addiction top smartphones. With this in mind, MEPs have adopted a report expressing deep concern over the physical and mental…
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