From the investigation surrounding Hillary Clinton’s private email server to the multi-million dollar lawsuits related to massive consumer data security failures by the likes of Target, eBay and UCLA Health, one fact is becoming glaringly clear: The data protection “buck” does not stop — or start, for that matter — in the IT department.
“It used to be ‘We don’t have to worry about it; The IT guys will take care of that,’” said Brian Ray, a Cleveland State University Cleveland-Marshall College of Law professor. “Now organizations recognize it really is something that the C-suite and even the board of directors need to be aware of and have a working understanding.”
That includes attorneys, Ray said, who are increasingly involved in setting information security policies at one end, litigating cases of data intrusion at the other and various stops in between.
“We are at the point where law is very aggressively — and much more quickly than being asked — beginning to confront these issues,” he said. For the full article click here
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