Kaylee Cox is an Associate in Holland &
Knight's
Washington, D.C. office
If "The Year of the Breach" and the rapid start to
data breaches in 2015 have taught us anything, it is that any
company is susceptible to a cyber attack; and, while data breaches
are not a new concept, the way the private sector must start to
think about them is. One of the more recent well-known breaches
produced a vast array of non-traditional compromised information,
ranging from valuable intellectual property (IP) to sensitive
employee information to embarrassing emails from executives. The
most recent large-scale, confirmed breach also involved compromised
employment information, and while there is yet no indication that
medical diagnosis or treatment information was exposed, it is safe
to assume that attackers will attempt to go after such information
in the near future, as the healthcare industry increasingly gets
targeted. On the other hand, there are also other attackers out
there
