California AG Suggests Cybersecurity Measures

State Attorney General

On February 27, California Attorney General Kamala Harris issued a guide to assist small businesses in defending against the threat of cybercrime. The guide, which was developed with the California Chamber of Commerce and Lookout, a mobile security company, stresses that small businesses should assume that they are a target for cybercrime and act accordingly. In addition to providing actionable steps to prevent cyber-attacks, the guide encourages every small business to develop a “game plan” for responding to the inevitability of an actual incident: “Experience has shown that many organizations wait until they have actually suffered a serious data breach before attempting to come up with a process for dealing with such a situation – which amounts, effectively, to building an airplane in the air.”