Security breaches remain big news, virtually every day. Executives and managers understand it is a question of “when,” not “if,” their companies will be targeted. Companies in all industries, as well as a host of other organizations, are affected. Hackers are engaged in ever more brazen schemes to gather personal and proprietary information for a variety of motives. This article by Kirk J. Nahra and Edward Brown of Wiley Rein LLP discusses the essentials: identifying the problem and the insurance, involving he insurer, engaging counsel, determining the cause of the problem, evaluating the harm, taking the right steps— and more.

Read the full article in the October edition of The Practical Lawyer.