CyberLaw

 Legally informed decisions that promote growth while managing and mitigating cyber-risks

Cyber-security providers and users are challenged with many issues—some legal in nature—some critical in time and place—all specialized and unique to your cyber-risks. We listen and support our cyber-clients, formulating strategies for overcoming those challenges. We guide you through many complexities of defining and deploying cyber-risk mitigation and assignment solutions. If your needs center on defining and managing cyber-risks or their underlying regulatory issues—Keeling Law Offices can help you make legally informed decisions that promote risk-adjusted growth while managing and mitigating cyber-risk.

Trust Keeling Law Offices to listen and provide seasoned legal advice that is focused to your cyber-needs. We provide a free initial consult to ensure we understand your issues, specific needs while best positioning to provide you professional advice.

INNOVATING

• Devising Cyber-risk Informed Solutions
  • Specifying/negotiating Cyber-services
  • Leveraging strategies/aggregation strategies
  • Regulatory compliance
• Cyber-insurance Solutions
  • Protecting your intellectual property
  • Validity/value of intellectual property of others
  • Licensing issues/negotiations
  • Leveraging content within multiple delivery/pay channels
  • Leveraging Internet/mobility attributes and freedoms
• Cyber-risk Provider Solutions
  • Hiring breach analysts
  • Rebuilding compromised security systems
  • Notifying potentially harmed parties required under state and federal law
  • Legal costs
  • Ongoing credit monitoring of affected parties
  • Federal and state fines and penalties for breaching rules and regulations
• Minimizing Cyber-insurance Exclusions
  • Breaches of protected information in paper files
  • Claims brought by the government or regulators
  • Vicarious liability, for data entrusted to a third-party vendor, when the breach occurs on the vendor’s system
  • Unencrypted data
  • Failure to use their best efforts to install software updates or releases.
  • Failure to apply security patches to computer systems
  • Expenses for first-party notification, which result from, “disclosure of personally identifiable, confidential corporate, or personal health information.”

PROTECTING

• Enabling Transactional Means
  • Contracts with remedies
  • Dispute resolution
• Defining Regulatory Certification/Compliance Means
  • Regulatory approvals
  • Regulatory proceedings
• Implementing Legal Safe-Guards
  • Service Provider Breach Costs of security breach caused by a third party service provider, such as software-as-a-service (“SAAS”), platform-as-a-service (“PAAS”) or other “cloud” provider
  • Third-party network security and privacy liability
  • Third-party employee privacy liability
  • Third-party electronic media liability

PRESERVING

• Reviewing Critical Cyber-Issues In A Changing Environment
  • Business/legal landscape
  • Regulatory limits and opportunities
  • Cyber-risk indemnifying opportunities
• Reinforcing User-Level Transactions
  • Network-risk reduced transactions
  • Cloud SAAS provider safeguards
  • End user envelopes
• Litigation—if necessary
  • Compliance
  • Transactions
  • Cyber-rights