When a cyber breach occurs, lawsuits are usually not far behind. It's a chain of events that has become de rigueur in the consumer realm when retailers experience a breach and it is bleeding over into the workplace, too.

Employees whose data is exposed are increasingly pointing the finger at failings in the technology employers use to secure their information and lapses in protocols that allow vulnerabilities to be exploited.

Who is responsible if your employees' personal information is stolen on company time? Where does the company's obligations begin and end under the duty of care laws? How might state and federal breach regulations impact an organization's proactive and reactive data security efforts?

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