March 2021 Issue
Q&A: Managing identity fraud risks
FW discusses managing identity fraud risks with Nadine P. Tollefsen at Brown Rudnick LLP, Philip Allister at FTI Consulting, and Andrew Herring at Pinsent Masons LLP.
Prepare now for the next catastrophe
Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) We do not know what the next global threat will be, but we must prepare for it. Our aim must be to create both organisational and financial resilience. The pandemic has painfully demonstrated that many risks have become systemic, linked through technological revolutions…
Maintaining regulatory compliance
International Compliance Association A bruising 2020 has given way to an equally testing start to 2021. As progress with COVID-19 inches forward, few believe that life or business will return to how they were pre-pandemic. In the UK and elsewhere, there came the added uncertainty surrounding the end of the…
Digital transformation and the increased regulatory burden
Microsoft The UK Computer Misuse Act (1990) is one of the early pieces of legislation for securing computer material against attack. This Act, which came into being before the introduction of the world wide web and ubiquitous internet access, and when mobile phones were still bricks…
Lions and gazelles – the reality of the cyber jungle
Baker Tilly To understand the current state of cyber security risk, picture the golden sun rising over the plains in Africa. Each morning, the gazelle has one primary thought: “I must outrun the fastest lion today, or I will be eaten”. The lion, meanwhile, knows that in order to eat that day…
Handling the rise in cyber attacks in the era of remote work
Morrison & Foerster LLP The US Cyberspace Solarium Commission issued a supplemental white paper to address cyber security lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic. Among other things, the Commission highlighted that the significant surge in internet traffic, triggered in part by a…
The importance of curated data for robust portfolio and risk management
GRMA Only a few years ago, there was much hoopla in the global media around the term ‘big data’. Many people were led to believe that it had become possible to easily access and utilise massive amounts of data, resolving major challenges facing businesses and other institutions…
Four current regulatory risks facing US insurers
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP This article will examine four possible evolving sources of regulatory risk affecting US insurance companies: one affecting carriers across all lines of business, one affecting life, one affecting property-casualty, and one affecting health. Historically, insurance company surplus…
Q&A: Effective legal risk management
FW discusses managing identity fraud risks with Matthew Nunan at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher UK LLP and Sean T. Seelinger at Ropes & Gray International LLP.
CONTRIBUTORS
Baker Tilly
Brown Rudnick LLP
Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA)
FTI Consulting
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher UK LLP
GRMA
International Compliance Association
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
Microsoft
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Pinsent Masons LLP
Ropes & Gray International LLP