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Jan 17, 2025 | 
irglobal.com | Douglas M. DePeppe
Volume 12, Issue 1, January 14, 2025By: Doug DePeppeAs a cybersecurity law attorney with experience handling data breach investigations, and the related ramifications and privacy compliance dimensions, I was pleased when Vertess approached me about publishing a blog article concerning cyber due diligence (Cyber DD). Engaging in due diligence of risk as part of mergers and acquisition (M&A) is a standard practice. So, sharing knowledge around Cyber DD was a sensible suggestion and I readily agreed.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
datos-insights.com | Jane Ginn |Douglas M. DePeppe |Deb Zawisza
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), an independent agency of the Federal Reserve Board, claimed it was seeking to “jumpstart competition” with its October 22, 2024, final rule on consumer data access in accordance with a Dodd-Frank consumer data access provision. The Bureau’s strong advocacy on consumer rights and identity ownership convey its philosophical convictions and gives us some insight into the design patterns of the rule.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
datos-insights.com | Deb Zawisza |Douglas M. DePeppe
As a former claims CIO and an insurance industry analyst, I’ve spent years watching insurers struggle to get customers to embrace digital claims tools. But according to J.D. Power’s latest U.S. Claims Digital Experience Study, that’s all changing – and fast. The numbers tell a compelling story: customer satisfaction with digital insurance claims has jumped 17 points from last year, reaching 871 on a 1,000-point scale. What’s driving this surge?
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
irglobal.com | Douglas M. DePeppe
By Doug DePeppe, J.D., LLM; cybersecurity attorneyThe general economic environment undoubtedly affects the merger and acquisition (M&A) marketplace, just like the economy affects everything else. This article will show how cybersecurity – specifically Cyber Due Diligence (Cyber DD) – has become a facet of the ordinary buyer/seller assessment of M&A market conditions in the United States. General M&A Market Conditions.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
irglobal.com | Douglas M. DePeppe
Here’s an important webinar: identifying the risks peculiar to CISOs and V-CISOs, and ways that #cyberlaw helps to improve compliance and minimize risk exposures. Doug DePeppe, Esq. , part of the OnCall Cyber cyberlaw network (the hashtag#CyberJurisNetwork) will be participating. OnCall Cyber vertically integrates cyberlaw counsel advisory in its Cyber Crisis Team offering.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
irglobal.com | Douglas M. DePeppe
A new cyber partnership within the IR Global network, derived from joint pitching among member firms, has been formed. OnCall Cyber™, which originated from a collaboration between co-founders Brian Meegan and Doug DePeppe during the IR Global 2021 Chicago conference, recently showcased the very objectives explored by members during a breakout session in Boston concerning joint pitching opportunities. Joint pitching illustrates the network’s synergy and scalability.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Douglas M. DePeppe
Cyberattacks continue across all sectors, such as Healthcare,
Academia, Financial, etc. But increasingly we are also seeing
attacks on critical infrastructure and public institutions of
government.
Entire communities have suffered lost access to critical
services. As this story reveals, Oakley, a city around the Bay Area
in California, experienced a large ransomware attack and declared a
state or emergency so as to access state and regional resources to
support the incident response and recovery.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
irglobal.com | Douglas M. DePeppe
Cyberattacks continue across all sectors, such as Healthcare, Academia, Financial, etc. But increasingly we are also seeing attacks on critical infrastructure and public institutions of government. Entire communities have suffered lost access to critical services. As this story reveals, Oakley, a city around the Bay Area in California, experienced a large ransomware attack and declared a state or emergency so as to access state and regional resources to support the incident response and recovery.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
mondaq.com | Douglas M. DePeppe
Clients often ask what "cyber hygiene" means and what
are some basic things businesses can do to raise their
cybersecurity level. As this article points out, every company should
have an Incident Response Plan (IRP). In the article, I am quoted
for illustrating how many laws and regulations now mandate
businesses to control risks through an IRP. The rest of the article
highlights the other advantages of the IRP, such as detecting
deficiencies in systems controls BEFORE a cyberattack.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
mondaq.com | Douglas M. DePeppe
Doug DePeppe, founding member of eosedge Legal spoke to IR
Digital's podcast host Jennifer Riggins on our most recent
podcast, 'Web 3.0 And The Transition From Data Privacy to Data
Property'.
Doug and Jennifer explore the emergence of Web 3.0 and how
personal online data is about to see a rapid change. Doug talks
about how people can protect their identity and personal brand, as
threats online become ever greater.
