Risk Manager

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A Recommended Framework For IP Risk Management

Recognizing IP risks in advance is the best way to mitigate them and avoid being blindsided, either by losing rights […]

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The Prospect For D&O Climate Liability Claims

A recent study looks at how, in today’s legal environment, a board’s failure to adequately address climate change-related issues could […]

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Sorry Facebook, That Name Is Taken, Says PC Maker

Meta PCs, a Scottsdale AZ-based company that assembles and sells high-performance gaming computers, has been around for more than a […]

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A Consultant’s Recipe For Fraud Control

A consultant boils in-house fraud control down to six components. First on his list is “visible, vocal leadership support,” starting […]

Precarious Role For 401-K Fiduciaries

Excessive-fee claims began to appear in 2006, at first targeting only large companies with more than $1B in retirement plan […]

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It’s Official: Climate Change An “Emerging Threat” To Financial Stability

In a new report, the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) calls climate change an emerging threat that is likely to […]

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Three Ways To Reduce D&O Cyber Risk

Cyber risks, including the risk of ransomware attacks, are proving to be a direct threat to company officers and directors. […]

Immortal Cells Generate Potent Lawsuit

“This case,” says the complaint, “is about a multibillion-dollar biotechnology corporation, Thermo Fisher Scientific, making a conscious choice to sell […]

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Ransomware Gangs Running Their Own Arbitration Forums

After staging highly successful attacks earlier this year, first on a big meat supplier and then on software company Kaseya, […]

Lessons from the Change Healthcare Incident and the HIPAA Security Rule

Double Punch For Hospitals: Risk Of Malpractice Lawsuit After Cyber Attack

Some beleaguered healthcare systems, already reeling from ransomware attacks, are finding themselves having to defend what one MD/cybersecurity expert believes […]