As cybercriminals get more and more sophisticated, General Electric Co. is putting all hands on deck to protect its confidential materials, a GE in-house lawyer said at a panel discussion on Monday in New York City.
Speaking at the Intellectual Property Owners Association’s annual meeting, GE’s senior counsel for intellectual property and trade Thaddeus Burns said that a wide range of departments within the company—from legal to IT to HR—are joining forces in an unprecedented way to fight cybercrime. “This challenge has driven a degree of cross-functional collaboration that I’ve not seen on any other issue because it falls into so many different areas,” he said.
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