2025 State Cybersecurity Legislation Focuses on Financial Services

The Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection director used a blog post to summarize three primary areas where the FTC has strengthened data security orders. Our Cybersecurity Preparedness & Response Team examines seven recent data security orders and offers lessons to be learned from them.

Twenty Alston & Bird attorneys have been selected for inclusion in the 2025 edition of Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Litigators in America list. This annual list recognizes lawyers who demonstrate exceptional skill in their established litigation practice and participate in cutting-edge litigation. 

Alston & Bird announces the election of 23 lawyers to its partnership, effective January 1, 2023. The new partners span eight U.S. offices and 15 practice groups.

Keep up with what’s happening in privacy, data security, and all things cyber – from California’s CCPA, CPPA, and CPRA to FTC and SEC actions to EU #GDPR guidance – from our Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Group.

On October 18, 2022, EyeMed Vision Care LLC (“EyeMed”) entered into a Consent Order with the New York Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) relating to a cybersecurity event from 2020 that exposed consumer nonpublic information (“NPI”) to an unauthorized individual. EyeMed agreed to pay DFS a $4.5 million penalty, in addition to implementing mandatory remediation […]

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