Electronic payments have dethroned the use of cash, and day-to-day banking has moved online and mobile. Take the recent flurry of news regarding the race between Apple Pay and Android Pay vying to be the mobile payment method of choice. The truth is, it’s safer to carry around these mobile payment methods than regular plastic, … Continue reading Mobile Security That Businesses Can Take to the Bank—and Beyond →

(excerpts from the Association of Corporate Counsel, Docket, October 2015) Have you ever wondered what it must have felt like to be a lawyer when the industrial revolution was happening and the world was changing so dramatically? Oddly, our experiences with change may be similar to those who experienced the industrial revolution. We are in … Continue reading LAWYERS: TECHNOLOGICAL EVOLUTION →

The concept of mobility in the government today is a source of many things: excitement, productivity, innovation, frustration. The vision for tomorrow, however, is a much broader, wide-open horizon of potential uses and applications. Take BYOD. Over the years, we have experienced a dramatic rise in mobile device use for both personal and professional communications, … Continue reading How Governments Can Turn BYOD from a Challenge into an Opportunity →

Since June 2012, Wyndham Hotels has been the focus of an FTC complaint alleging that the company acted unfairly when it failed to provide reasonable measures to secure customer data. Keep in mind that Wyndham had suffered three data breaches in two years, and according to the complaint, those breach failures resulted in millions of … Continue reading What FTC v. Wyndham Means For You →

Financial services firms looking to implement a mobile strategy today face a number of challenges. While mobility has created important opportunities to increase employee productivity and customer engagement in financial services, mobile communication on personal devices has introduced new challenges, including security concerns around secure messaging and voice calls, increased regulatory scrutiny and the need … Continue reading Making BYOD Possible in Today’s Highly Regulated World →

I was recently asked to speak on a panel discussing “The perils of connectivity: privacy and security on the Internet of Things,” at the State Bar of Arizona’s annual conference for attorneys. My co-panelists included David Bodney, Ballad Spahr LLP and Chair of ABA Forum on Communications Law; Daniel Christensen, Global Group Counsel of IT, … Continue reading The perils of connectivity: Privacy and security on the Internet of Things →