Panelists Say Corporate Responsibility Extends to Cybersecurity, National Security

From: Bloomberg/BNA

By Adrianne Appel

Businesses have a responsibility to know what data in their company needs to be protected from cyberattacks and why because the nation’s security depends on it, panelists at the American Bar Association Annual Meeting in Boston said Aug. 9.

The panel, which include high-ranking government cybersecurity officials, a member of Congress and a contract research scientist for the government, addressed some of the thousands of lawyers attending the meeting.

On Aug. 12, the ABA announced that at the meeting its House of Delegates passed a resolution calling on “all private and public sector organizations to develop, implement, and maintain an appropriate cyber security program.” In 2013, the ABA House of Delegates adopted a separate cybersecurity resolution calling for an end to government-sponsored hacking of networks utilized by lawyers.

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