Legal Issues of Cybersecurity and Data Breach Response
Current Events
Fall 2021
August 26th, 2021
Key Takeaways From Two Recent SEC Cyber-Disclosure Enforcement Actions, Cybersecurity Docket and Law 360 (August 20, 2021)
The FBI Should Retire its form 302, Cybersecurity Docket and Law 360 (April 22nd, 2021)
September 2nd, 2021
Key Takeaways From a Second Summer Blitzkrieg of SEC Cybersecurity Enforcement, Cybersecurity Docket and Law 360 (September 5, 2021)
September 9th, 2021
Conti Ransomware Threat Rising as Group Gains Affiliates, Bank Info Security (September 3, 2021)
Coinbase Takes on the SEC LinkedIn Posts:
September 16th, 2021
Apple Pays Hackers Six Figures to Find Bugs in its Software. Then it Sits on their Findings, Washington Post (September 9, 2021)
The SEC's Newly Pronounced Search Warrant Authority, Compliance Week (January 12, 2016)
Mary Jo White Wants to Read Your Gmail, Wall Street Journal (June 17, 2016)
September 23rd, 2021
A Ransomware OFAC Due Diligence Checklist, (Revised 9/22/2021) Cybersecurity Docket | Law360 (September 22, 2021)
United States v. Michael Sussman (Filed 9/16/2021)
Attribution on Election Cyber-Attacks: Don't Rush to Judgment, Cybersecurity Docket | Law360 (October 19, 2020)
September 30, 2021
When the FBI Seizes Your Messages from Big Tech, You May not Know it for Years | Washington Post (September 25, 2021)
October 14th, 2021
Sussmann Motion for Bill of Particulars (Filed 10/5/2021)
Cybersecurity-Related Oversight Duty Breach Claim Against Marriott Board Dismissed (D&O Diary October 7, 2021)
October 28th, 2021
DOJ Opposition to Sussmann Bill of Particulars (Filed 10/20/2021)
November 18th, 2021
Policyholders Hit With Ransomware Strike Insurance Coverage Oil in Indiana (Barnes & Thornburg (Scott Godes) October 25, 2021)
Ransomware Case Signifies Shift In Cyber Insurers' Stance (Law 360, November 12,2021)
About John Reed Stark
John Reed Stark President of John Reed Consulting LLC. Served for 15 years as an SEC enforcement attorney leading cyber-related projects, investigations and enforcement actions; For 11 years as Founder/Chief of SEC Office of Internet Enforcement; For 15 years as Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law School teaching cyber law; For 10 years as a Guest Instructor at the FBI Academy; For 5+ years as Managing Director (three as head of the Washington, D.C. office) of Stroz, Friedberg, a global digital risk management firm, leading cybersecurity, incident response and digital compliance engagements for corporations. Appointed since 2017 as Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke University Law School teaching law of cybersecurity and data breach response. Author of The Cybersecurity Due Diligence Handbook. 
