Tag Archives: 2021 Data Security Incident Response Report

The Impact of Data Security Incident Trends on Commercial Transactions: Part I – M&A

By Craig Carpenter on August 25, 2021 Posted in Data Security Incident Response

The 2021 edition of BakerHostetler’s annual Data Security Incident Response Report – a report based on the firm’s experience with data security incident response and litigation over the past year – features a number of important insights previously covered on this blog including trends in global breach notification, healthcare industry risks and ransomware. The Report is … Continue Reading

Ransomware, COVID-19 and Regulations: Healthcare Entities Confront a Triple Threat

By Eric A. Packel, Vimala Devassy and Courtney Litchfield on July 1, 2021 Posted in Healthcare

Given what the healthcare industry faced in 2020, the seventh edition of our Data Security Incident Response (DSIR) Report, “Disruption and Transformation,” is aptly titled. As if fighting the COVID-19 pandemic weren’t enough for the industry to tackle, it also faced a surge of ransomware attacks, evolving legal/regulatory considerations, and novel and complex issues presented … Continue Reading

Pairing Real-World™ Problems with Realistic Solutions – a Push for Practical Information Governance

By James A. Sherer and Adam Cohen on June 18, 2021 Posted in Information Governance

For those attorneys and information governance practitioners unfamiliar with recent pedagogic advancements, “real-world problem solving” moves teaching approaches away from the classical model that assumes individuals will operate logically and in self-interested ways to a more realistic view. The more realistic view then acknowledges the powers of wishful thinking, uneven knowledge across populations, and the … Continue Reading

Dramatic Increase in the Number of Third-Party Vendor Incidents Emphasizes the Need for Better Vendor Due Diligence Processes

By Sara Goldstein and David Kitchen on June 3, 2021 Posted in Third-Party Vendor Incidents

As reflected in our 2021 Data Security Incident Response Report 2020 saw a sharp spike in the number of incidents involving vendors, which amounted to over 25 percent of the total incidents handled in 2020, and the trend is continuing well into 2021. This spike resulted from companies’ increased reliance on vendors to carry out … Continue Reading

Incident Response and Forensic Challenges in a Work-from-Home World

By Joseph L. Bruemmer on May 18, 2021 Posted in Data Security Incident Response

Our 2021 Data Security Incident Response Report discussed the challenges that organizations are facing with forensic investigations and ransomware recovery in the work-from-home world. Some of the greatest difficulties our clients encountered in the past year involved key components of incident response — communicating with employees, resetting remote user passwords, and deploying endpoint detection and … Continue Reading

The Scourge of Ransomware

By Craig A. Hoffman and Elise Elam on May 13, 2021 Posted in Data Security Incident Response

Our 2021 Data Security Incident Response Report (DSIR) described ransomware as a scourge. There are stories every day about new threat actor groups and their victims. There are task forces, law enforcement initiatives, discussions by legislators about laws to help address the problem, and real-world impact from operational disruption (such as panic-buying of gas). Most … Continue Reading

Seventh Annual Data Security Incident Response Report Released – Disruption and Transformation

By Theodore J. Kobus III on April 29, 2021 Posted in Data Security Incident Response

Welcome to our seventh Data Security Incident Response Report (DSIR). It has been quite a year from many perspectives. Thank you to everyone we have continued to partner and work with to create this report. We are excited to soon launch a new digital platform version, and we intend to update this version throughout the … Continue Reading