SmartEdgeLaw Group founder, Richard Santalesa, commented at length about the need, coverage and enforcement of successful non-disclosure agreements, more commonly dubbed “NDAs”, which are used by nearly every company to safeguard confidential and proprietary information. The entire article, Secrets of Successful NDAs, and Santalesa’s insights are available at https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/secrets-of-successful-ndas-1810.html
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Fairfield County Business Journal Profiles SmartEdgeLaw Group
We’re proud to be featured in the Fairfield County Business Journal. Our practice is tech-focused, reality-driven and above all embrace that legal is here to deliver solutions and recommendations not road blocks. Our firm works throughout CT and NYC and is constantly developing new approaches to meet your legal needs. Westport attorney takes a legal […]
Proposed cybersec regulations for New York financial institutions have a broad reach
As written by SmartEdgeLaw Group Attorney Richard Santalesa, in the September 30, 2016 IAPP Privacy Tracker and Daily Dashboard – at https://iapp.org/news/a/proposed-cybersec-regulations-for-new-york-financial-institutions-have-a-broad-reach/ Proposed cybersec regulations for New York financial institutions have a broad reach Richard Santalesa, CIPP/US Privacy Tracker | Sep 30, 2016 New York state’s long-awaited Cybersecurity Regulations For Financial Services Companies, issued by […]
1+ Billion Records Exposed So Far in 2016
With Labor Day over and summer now fading into memory, it’s the perfect time to take a fresh look at your data and information security, privacy and compliance postures. And to review fresh lessons from what 2016 has served up as to data breaches and incidents in the first six months. Background Earlier this year, […]
SmartEdgeLaw View on FISMA 2.0 Quoted in FedTech Magazine
While data breaches at retailers and merchants get the headlines, governmental breaches – particularly on the federal level – are an all too common occurrence. According to federal watchdogs, there were 25,556 breaches of personally identifiable information in 2013, up from 10,481 in 2009. In response, SmartEdgeLaw’s opinion on the need and requirements of the […]
Ninth Circuit Affirms – Browserwrap “Terms of Use” Link Not Enough
Schools are back in session with September is upon us, and website owners should be aware of a Ninth Circuit Court of Appels opinion “schooling” them on how to handle web Terms of Use, particularly those for consumer e-commerce websites. Last year a California federal District Court held in Nguyen v. Barnes & Noble that merely providing a link […]
“BigData” Hat Tip for Sm@rtEdge
Attorney Richard Santalesa and the Sm@rtEdgeLaw Group were highlighted in a short Fierce Data article on “How to draft big data contracts.” Contracting for big data services and the issues surrounding onboarding and combination of consumer data, whether “anonymized” or not, from third party sources is neither a trivial matter, nor a mere extension of […]
What the Walking Dead Can Teach Us About Vendor Agreements
As fans of the AMC hit series, The Walking Dead, last night’s mid-season premiere drove home that the show is fundamentally an examination of basic morality. And contract law. And the vital importance of “vetting” third-party contractors. Think we’re stretching things? Read on… for what the Walking Dead teaches about your vendor agreements and dealing […]
2014 Verizon PCI Report Reveals Much Work Needed For Compliance
Update: Richard Santalesa of the Sm@rtedgeLaw Group was interviewed by Eric Parizo of SearchSecurity.com for the story Verizon PCI report: Pen testing, passwords cause PCI assessment gaffes to discuss PCI and the 2014 Verizon PCI Compliance Report. Verizon’s 2014 PCI Compliance Report (“PCR”) is now available for free download in “pre-release.” Along with Verizon’s annual […]
NIST Issues Finalized Guidelines for Managing Security & Privacy in Public Cloud Computing
Say what you will about the federal government, the Nat’l Institute of Standards & Technology (“NIST“), part of the Department of Commerce, has certainly been busy over the past year releasing numerous special drafts and reports addressing cloud computing recommendations, security and issues. [Full disclosure: I’m a member of several NIST working groups, including one currently working […]
Contracting for Cloud Computing Services
The Knowledge Group/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series, a leading producer of regulatory focused webcasts, has announced that attorney, Richard Santalesa, will be speaking at the Knowledge Congress’ webcast entitled: “Contracting for Cloud Computing Services: What You Need to Know” scheduled for February 14, 2012 from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET. For more details […]
Can’t Contractually Limit Liability for Willful or Grossly Negligence Conduct in NY
As a big fan of the late Paul Harvey, who’s signature closing catch-phrase was “and now you know the rest of the story,” there are times that posts analyzing cases, statutes or developments are held until additional information is in. The opinion early this year by U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin in the hijacked domain […]
Clickwrap forum selection clauses – a summer refresher
Despite the apparently unending deluge of regulations, rules and legislation flowing from the swamps of Washington, D.C., the dog days of August are usually time for lounging around the pool with family while catching up on that yard-high backlog of cases, articles and bills you piled up in the past few months. Summer’s also a […]
