Category: Blog - Part 8

Best Practices: Responding to a Data Breach

This is part three of a three part series from Brandie N. Weddle and Laura J. Butte of Arnold & Porter LLP on the prevention, mitigation and response to a data breach. Businesses should invest time and resources up front to develop an initial response plan to a data breach. A well-developed response plan should…

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Best Practices: Mitigating a Data Breach

This is part two of a three part series from Brandie N. Weddle and Laura J. Butte of Arnold & Porter LLP on the prevention, mitigation and response to a data breach. There is some overlap between mitigation and prevention, but mitigation is important enough to warrant its own category.  On a regular basis, businesses…

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Best Practices: Preventing a Data Breach

This is part one of a three part series from Brandie N. Weddle and Laura J. Butte of Arnold & Porter LLP on the prevention, mitigation and response to a data breach. Businesses collect personal information for business purposes, including receipt of credit card information to complete a purchase or even social security numbers to…

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Best Practices: Preventing, Mitigating, and Responding to a Data Breach

Over the next three weeks Community Merchants USA will be posting a series of articles from Brandie N. Weddle and Laura J. Butte of Arnold & Porter LLP on the prevention, mitigation and response to a data breach. Following the recent spate of data breaches, including at Target, Neiman Marcus, and the University of Maryland,…

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