DAC Beachcroft | Insurance, Privacy & Data Security News | September 2014

September 2014 update 

Cyber security is about risk reduction, not risk prevention. No system can ever be 100% secure, particularly when constrained by financial resources and the exposure to human error or behaviour.

The law governing data security is similarly not absolute. For example, the Data Protection Act 1998 ("DPA") demands that an organisation has "appropriate" technical and organisational security measures.

DAC Beachcroft | Insurance, Privacy & Data Security News | August 2014

August 2014 update 

Cyber-attacks remain a regular feature of news headlines. This month, reports circulated that Russian hackers have allegedly carried out the world's biggest ever data theft, amassing 4.5 billion user credentials.

The hack was identified by US security experts Hold Security and, if true, could be the largest publicised breach in history.

DAC Beachcroft | Insurance, Privacy & Data Security News | July 2014

July 2014 update 

Catch up with the latest cyber risk legislation and regulatory developments with the DAC Beachcroft Adviser Newsletter

Data protection and privacy is only one element of cyber risk and there have been a number of recent public and private sector initiatives which highlight the need to mitigate cyber risk from a business disruption perspective.

DAC Beachcroft | Insurance, Privacy & Data Security News

June 2014 update 

Catch up with the latest cyber risk legislation and regulatory developments with the DAC Beachcroft Adviser Newsletter

As the implementation of the European Data Protection Regulation drops further behind schedule, one could be forgiven for thinking that all is quiet on the cyber risk insurance front.