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Security Is Only As Good As the Weakest Link

Posted May 6, 2009 | Leadership | Leadership |

It started innocently enough. A US educational institution (which we shall call WhoU) was looking to update and standardize the PII of current and former students in its electronic database and upgrade its software to automate much of this process on a going-forward basis.

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Scott Christie
Scott S. Christie is a partner in the IP/IT Group at McCarter & English, LLP. He is a trial lawyer who is actively involved in counseling of clients and in trial work regarding all fields of intellectual property, information technology, data privacy, and licensing. Scott Christie, in the data privacy area, instructs companies on protecting personally identifiable information of customers and employees, investigates breaches of security of… Read More
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