The Los Angeles San Francisco Daily Journal published an article on Oct. 10, 2022, titled “Cyber lawyers consider impact of Uber executive’s conviction,” addressing what has changed for companies and their security and compliance professionals since a data breach at Uber culminated in a conviction on federal charges of the company’s former security chief.
Partner Ed McAndrew told the publication that this case clearly signaled to companies that the government means business when it comes to compliance with rules and laws concerning cybersecurity. “It’s certainly not every day that the Justice Department charges an incident responder with a crime – or calls an immunized lawyer and one of the hackers to testify against that incident responder,” he said.
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