Contractual obligations driving data privacy, cybersecurity upgrades

Cybersecurity Dive February 13, 2024
Robert Freedman

To secure work from business partners, more companies are getting serious about having the right technical and legal safeguards, a specialist says.

The increased regulation of data privacy and cybersecurity is only half the reason in-house legal should help ensure their organizations are serious about breaches; the other half is the expectation of business partners who increasingly won’t do business with companies that don’t have protections in place, Otterbourg Partner Erik Weinick says.

“Companies are being forced by contractual provisions,” Weinick told Legal Dive. “If they are a small company but are doing business with a large company, as a condition of doing business with them they have to change what they’re doing from a privacy or security standpoint.”...

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