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Businesses have a major need to assess their own cybersecurity<\/a> risks, and to openly exchange internal information within the company to effectively address and mitigate an actual breach situation. Yet a company\u2019s internal assessments of its own weaknesses and the holes in its cybersecurity protections can, ironically, actually expose the company to even greater danger in future security breach litigation. A company\u2019s good faith internal report of its cybersecurity weaknesses can potentially serve as almost an admission that it has found its cybersecurity protections for personal and confidential data to be inadequate.<\/p>\n

Similarly it is of extreme importance that in the midst of dealing with a cyber breach event, that the company\u2019s personnel freely exchange information related to the breach crisis situation quickly and without undue worries about how the disclosure of that information might look in a future litigation discovery proceeding.<\/p>\n

The involvement of the company\u2019s legal counsel in all important aspects of a cybersecurity risk assessment and breach response is crucial because of the protections that involvement can potentially provide the company under the doctrines of (i) attorney-client privilege, and (ii) work product protection.<\/p>\n

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Businesses have a major need to assess their own cybersecurity risks, and to openly exchange internal information within the company to effectively address and mitigate an actual breach situation. Yet a company\u2019s internal assessments of its own weaknesses and the holes in its cybersecurity protections can, ironically, actually expose the company to even greater danger […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307,65,64],"tags":[],"coauthors":[207],"class_list":["post-2731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybersecurity-data-privacy-insights","category-insights","category-anderson"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nCybersecurity and the Importance of Attorney-Client Privilege — March 30, 2017 — Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper, P.C. 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