Blank Rome Partner: AI to Make Cyberattacks Worse
When a massive hacker attack hit a unit of UnitedHealth Group last month, snarling the work of thousands of companies, hospitals and doctors, Blank Rome cybersecurity partner Sharon Klein swung into action advising her clients.
“That was devastating to hospitals,” she said. “They couldn’t get paid, and people couldn’t get their prescriptions filled.”
It was the latest breach that Klein—the co-chair of Blank Rome’s Privacy, Security & Data Protection practice—has faced over the course of more than 35 years of advising clients on data privacy, cybersecurity and other complex technology transactions.
“I was in the middle of that, counseling clients, trying to do damage control,” Klein told the Business Journal on March 7.
She receives FBI alerts and is on various professional cyber information channels “so that I can then communicate with my clients pro-actively.”
“So that’s what I did.”
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“Blank Rome Partner: AI to Make Cyberattacks Worse,” by Rich Loyd, was published in the Orange County Journal on March 19, 2023.