Douglas M. DePeppe
Cybersecurity and the M&A Market
Cybersecurity and the M&A Market: The Time Has Come For Cyber DD Volume 12, Issue 1, January 14, 2025 By: Doug DePeppe As a cybersecurity law attorney with experience handling data breach investigations, and the related ramifications and privacy compliance dimensions, I was pleased when Vertess approached me about publishing a blog article concerning cyber…
Cyber Market Tip: The M&A Market In The Spotlight
By Doug DePeppe, J.D., LLM; cybersecurity attorney The general economic environment undoubtedly affects the merger and acquisition (M&A) marketplace, just like the economy affects everything else. This article will show how cybersecurity – specifically Cyber Due Diligence (Cyber DD) – has become a facet of the ordinary buyer/seller assessment of M&A market conditions in the…
CyberSecurity Awareness Month
Here’s an important webinar: identifying the risks peculiar to CISOs and V-CISOs, and ways that #cyberlaw helps to improve compliance and minimize risk exposures. Doug DePeppe, Esq. , part of the OnCall Cyber cyberlaw network (the hashtag#CyberJurisNetwork) will be participating. OnCall Cyber vertically integrates cyberlaw counsel advisory in its Cyber Crisis Team offering.
Douglas M. DePeppe & Brian Meegan Forge Cyber Partnership
A new cyber partnership within the IR Global network, derived from joint pitching among member firms, has been formed. OnCall Cyber™, which originated from a collaboration between co-founders Brian Meegan and Doug DePeppe during the IR Global 2021 Chicago conference, recently showcased the very objectives explored by members during a breakout session in Boston concerning…
California city declares state of emergency after ransomware attack
Cyberattacks continue across all sectors, such as Healthcare, Academia, Financial, etc. But increasingly we are also seeing attacks on critical infrastructure and public institutions of government. Entire communities have suffered lost access to critical services. As this story reveals, Oakley, a city around the Bay Area in California, experienced a large ransomware attack and declared…
The OnCall Cyber™ Story Starts with IR Global
Even as podcasts extolled the benefits of the Cyber Crisis Team offering from OnCall Cyber™, the story of the company’s formation originates from the mission of IR Global of bringing talented professionals together to make meaningful partnerships that reach around the globe. In the past week, IR Global’s Trusted Partner, Doug DePeppe of cyber law…
How Attorneys Orchestrate Cyberattack Investigations
Doug DePeppe of the firm eosedge Legal, a Trust Partner of IR Global, was recently interviewed in this podcast and described the central role cyberlaw counsel plays in breach coaching after a cyberattack. His narrative during the video runs through the initial advantages – and the best practice – of utilizing counsel for the advantages…
An Example of Cyber Preparedness
Clients often ask what “cyber hygiene” means and what are some basic things businesses can do to raise their cybersecurity level. As this article points out, every company should have an Incident Response Plan (IRP). In the article, I am quoted for illustrating how many laws and regulations now mandate businesses to control risks through…
Screen Actors Need Likeness Ownership
And Web3 is Poised to Enable Data Ownership Rights FOREWARD (by Douglas DePeppe, Esq.): Law Student Intern Samuel Mercaldo wrote this excellent article about the attributes of owning data, against the backdrop of the current strike in Hollywood and the threats of AI. His thoughtful analysis asserts that decentralized ownership control over one’s digital identity…
Cyber Risk Management Now A Top Priority With The SEC
IR Global members take note: all publicly traded companies in the U.S. have new cybersecurity risk management reporting rules! Moreover, these new rules will go into effect by the end of the year, which will greatly impact their 2023 10-K reports. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission released a statement late on July 26, 2023,…
Cyber Experts Call for Data Usage Rights Payments
Bruce Schneier and Barath Raghavan call for generative AI to compensate everyone a data license fee, in this article. Their rationale is that “Big Tech companies produce output from generative AI that was trained on public data”, and therefore “You are owed profits for your data that powers today’s AI”. Likening their proposal to Alaska’s Permanent Fund,…
Combating Lawfare via Web3 – A Call to Action for Cyber Law Professionals
ChatGPT released an entirely AI-generated simulation of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast on April 14, 2023. The video depicted an entirely simulated video of Joe Rogan and Sam Altman, along with their respective commentary. In another release, ChatGPT released an entirely AI-generated interview of former President Donald Trump with Joe Rogan. Real-looking manipulation of video…
