“Cybersecurity Lexicon for General Counsel” came about after meetings Chad McManamy, vice president of e-discovery and assistant general counsel at Guidance, and his team had with company leaders about cybersecurity. ‘The look in the eyes of the in-house counsel when we started talking about any of the acronyms, the advanced persistent threat stuff, would be like we were speaking a foreign language,’ he said. The guide contains several dozen terms and definitions, from words that describe forms of attack such as 'malware' and 'spear phishing', to the language used by cybercrime fighters such as 'automated incident response' and 'attack signature'. Source: Corporate Counsel
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