Guillermo Christensen Quoted in Law360: "COVID-19 Vaccine Hacking May Prompt Data Security Rethink"

Ice Miller partner Guillermo Christensen was quoted in the Law360 article, "COVID-19 Vaccine Hacking May Prompt Data Security Rethink."

The article included:

"These kind of alerts have more actionable information that provides the attackers' fingerprints or signatures, which is something that helps potential victims, particularly larger companies, to better defend themselves because they can put this information into their own internal security protocols and scan their systems to look for these types of threats and signatures," said Guillermo Christensen, a partner in the data security and privacy group at Ice Miller LLP and a former CIA intelligence officer.

Providing these technical details and threat signatures also "provides the justification and attribution" for these warnings, which is "important so companies take this seriously," Christensen said. He added that the alert about Russia has even more weight behind it because it had the backing of three governments, which gives the warning "added credibility" and removes some of the "political heat" compared to past COVID-19 alerts involving China.

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