Above the Law
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The Legal Landscape Of Privacy: Why Lawyers Must Keep Up With Change
Serious reviews of your cybersecurity and annual security changes mitigate risk and exposure and will keep class action lawsuits at bay.
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Health Care / Medicine, Technology
Why AI Governance Is The Number 1 Issue On This Health System Exec’s Mind
Jason Hill, Ochsner Health’s innovation officer, said he goes to sleep most nights and wakes up most mornings worried about one thing: the state of generative AI governance in healthcare. To him, providers and other healthcare organizations are in dire need of frameworks to ensure their AI tools are safe and perform well over time.
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Lawyers, Take Note: Microsoft Offers Current Advice On Cybersecurity
These simple steps can be quickly implemented by lawyers at no or little additional cost.
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CMMC 2.0 Final Rule Released: New Compliance Standards Set To Begin Next Year
CMMC 2.0 introduced a third-party assessment dependent on contractor’s CUI capacity.
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Common Sense Passwords Coming To Law Firms Soon
Be open to changing the way you protect your data.
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Biglaw, Small Law Firms, Technology
Introducing The 2024 Legal Tech Buyer’s Guide!
Ensure your firm is on the cutting edge with this brand new primer on doc management, AI, CRM, billing and payments, and more.
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Health Care / Medicine, Technology
What Will It Take To Improve Healthcare Cybersecurity?
During a panel discussion at MedCity News’ INVEST Digital Health conference, three healthcare leaders shared their expert insight on what needs to change in order to improve the industry’s cybersecurity strategy.
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Health Care / Medicine, Technology
Providers And Payers Are Increasing Their Tech Spend — Where Are They Investing The Most?
Three-quarters of U.S. providers and payers say they have increased their IT spending over the past year, according to a new report from Bain & Company and KLAS Research. Both providers and payers are investing in cybersecurity technology, as well as AI tools.
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AI And Cybersecurity: Now Inseparable
AI will never fully replace security professionals – good cybersecurity requires creative human problem-solving.
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ILTACON Attendees: Follow The Conference On Above The Law!
And if you can’t make it to Nashville, we’ll tell you what you’re missing.
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Why Law Firms Hate – And Leave – Their Managed Service Providers
Happy clients don’t leave. And if they are unhappy, we don’t want to compel them to stay.
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Cyberinsurance Bedevils Law Firms
While most lawyers now recognize the need for a cyberinsurance policy, they frequently find themselves balancing the risk of a breach against the cost of the policy.
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The recent announcements on Palantir’s Maven Smart System and other strategic tools are just the start, CDAO Radha Plumb told Breaking Defense, with announcements on tactical and business systems coming by fall.
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Law Firms Gear Up To Battle Deepfakes
Ed. note: This is the latest in the article series, Cybersecurity: Tips From the Trenches, by our friends at Sensei Enterprises, a boutique provider of IT, cybersecurity, and digital forensics services. The Rise of Deepfakes While lawyers have certainly been aware of deepfakes for years, everyone was fighting malware infections. As we constantly remind lawyers, the cybersecurity world […]
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Securing The Bounty: Bug Bounties Take Center Stage In Uber CISO’s Criminal Appeal
Bug bounty programs have been prized as a cybersecurity tool by tech giants and small startups for years, but effective bug bounty programs must have ground rules.
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Health Care / Medicine, Technology
ONC Chief: New AI Transparency Rule Should Drive Higher Quality Tools & More AI Adoption
Micky Tripathi, head of The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), thinks his office’s recent rule on AI transparency will spur greater adoption of AI tools in healthcare, as well as potentially drive higher quality AI-based products.
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Health Care / Medicine, Technology
5 Things To Know About the Sorry State Of Healthcare Cybersecurity
During a fireside chat at MedCity News’ INVEST conference, Nitin Natarajan — deputy director at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) — shared some key ideas that people need to understand about the current state of cybersecurity in the healthcare industry. For instance, he reminded us that things won’t get better overnight, and that cybersecurity requires an all-hands-on deck approach.
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Health Care / Medicine, Technology
Innovation Doesn’t Always Have To Involve The Latest Tech, MD Anderson Exec Says
While adopting new technology is obviously a big part of healthcare innovation teams’ work, there are plenty of worthwhile initiatives that don’t involve advanced technologies, pointed out Dan Shoenthal, chief innovation officer at MD Anderson Cancer Center.