SUMMER 2018 TODAY’S GENER AL COUNSEL
Cybersecurity
Survey Shows In-House Teams’ Data Protection Concerns By Chris Zohlen
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recent Advice from Counsel study of best practices for inhouse legal teams examined the latest data privacy and security concerns among counsel at large U.S. corporations. To help understand how these issues are impacting organizations, 30 practitioners from in-house legal teams shared insights on three critical and intersecting topics: the General Data
Protection Regulation (GDPR), information governance (IG), and security and data remediation. A recurring theme throughout interviews conducted for the study was worry over the investments needed to implement strong cybersecurity programs and meet GDPR requirements. The study outlined top areas of concern and practical advice for teams imple-
menting programs that better protect their organization from risk. GDPR
Enforcement for GDPR, Europe’s strict and highly anticipated data protection law, went into effect in May. Nevertheless, about half of the organizations in the study were taking a wait-and-see approach to determine how strict the