An increasing number of companies view the general counsel as the go-to person for handling compliance issues arising from a data breach, according to a recently released survey from insurance analytics company Advisen and insurer Zurich North America.
For the report, Advisen and Zurich posed the following question to more than 300 risk management officers: “In the event of a data breach, which department in your organization is primarily responsible for assuring compliance with all applicable federal, state or local privacy laws, including breach notification laws?” The most common response was office of the general counsel (24 percent), followed by IT (23 percent) and chief privacy officer/chief information security officer (17 percent).
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