Cybersecurity is always top-of-mind for insurance professionals and risk managers, and it's also an important area of focus for general counsel and their legal departments. In addition to helping their organizations navigate returning employees to the office, in-house teams also have to contend with litigation backlogs and shrinking staffs — not to mention the occasional ransomware attack. But the truth is that ransomware attack or not, cybersecurity will never be far from a GC's radar. Many organizations have begun to recognize cybersecurity as a risk-based function rather than a strictly technical one, with legal teams on the front lines of making sure their company has the right cyber insurance or that vendors are disposing of data properly. It's definitely not a one-and-done type of deal. In the above slideshow, we look at five reasons (other than ransomware) cybersecurity will stay at the top of general counsels' to-do list. Related: |

     

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Frank Ready

Frank Ready is a reporter on the tech desk at ALM Media. He can be reached at [email protected].

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