This second part of a three-part series on cybersecurity staffing appeared in Cybersecurity Law & Strategy, an ALM publication for privacy and security professionals, Chief Information Security Officers, Chief Information Officers, Chief Technology Officers, Corporate Counsel, Internet and Tech Practitioners, and In-House Counsel. Visit the website to learn more. Part One can also be found on Cybersecurity Law & Strategy’s website.

 Current State Similarities

Practitioners of both e-discovery and cybersecurity beg their customers to spend more time and money being proactive to their corporate challenges, but they ultimately spend the most time and money being reactive to urgent, time-sensitive problems that have legal ramifications: discovery and breach. According to Jerami D. Kemnitz, e-discovery, information governance, data privacy and data protection attorney at Fredrickson & Byron and former senior discovery counsel and global head of e-discovery at Wells Fargo: “Clients are generally still waiting to take action on proactive issues of information governance, privacy, and security until after a specific event forces them to take action.”