In Cyberlaw, Reasonableness is the Best Defense

Cyberlaw Defense in St. Louis

Liability You May Not Know You Carry with You

Cyberlaw Defense is still in its infancy, but business owners are expected to comply regardless. In an constantly changing, updating, and innovating field, this can be difficult.

If your business processes, stores, or transmit digital data, you fall under a vast network of federal and states laws that are decentralized, complex, and potentially dangerous to your business.

The category of the information you store, changes the rules on how you protect it, which federal agency oversees it, and the potential penalties for failing to protect it. For example,

• Health Information = HIPAA Compliance

• Financial Information = Compliance with Graham-Leach-Bailey Act, DORA, and the FTC.

• General personal information exposes you to FTC oversight.

• Credit Card Processing- PCI DSS

By transmitting or storing this information your business takes on the duty to protect it. Even though the law admits hacks and ransomware can happen anywhere, there is a responsibility for the business owner to take reasonable steps to prevent and minimize the damage and exposure.

If you don't take the reasonable steps to protect your network and your clients information, your business will be exposed to regulatory actions and civil lawsuits. By demonstrating your efforts to comply with regulatory standards, case law, and security requirements, you can defend yourself from liability.

Your network IS vulnerable. Your employees ARE susceptible. Have you taken the due diligence steps to ensure you can say- We did all we could?

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