TEMVI Cybersecurity

How Does TEMVI Help CEOs and Board Members?

TEMVI helps CEOs and board members understand their legal duties around cyber security and teaches them how to manage the senior executive team according to recognized cybersecurity models. Our counsel helps CEOs protect:

-Assets from cyber-related legal claims

-Personal and professional reputation

-Freedom from civil and criminal liability

-Insurance claims and insurability around cyber incidents

How is TEMVI Different From My Current IT Cybersecurity Provider

In our experience, your IT provider is likely doing an adequate job. However, most CEOs and boards would be hard pressed to explain why or what they are doing. IT and cybersecurity are--in many ways--a "black box". In most cases, CEOs and boards are trusting their IT team. However, your IT provider is neither qualified nor legally permitted to offer legal opinions on issues like legal cyber risk and liability. Nor should your IT team evaluate their own work.

Unlike IT operations, flaws in cyber security are invisible to system users. You will only know that your trust was misplaced after an attack. The worst part is that following an attack the IT team simply moves on to another job. The CEO and board of directors will be left to grapple with the consequences of the cyber attack.

TEMVI provides leaders with:

A legally reliable legal opinion on cyber risk based on established cyber security standards of care and applicable law
Direct advice to the CEO and Board
Advice at reasonable, fixed fees that are proportional to your organization's revenues

Not that this has been identified as a racailly-motivated incident, but Black organizations do face a particular threat from cyber attacks from those who wish to push a racist agenda.

"Howard University has canceled classes on Tuesday and shut down campus WiFi due to a ransomware cyberattack that hit their network, according to a letter sent out to the school community.

The institution's information technology team is actively investigating the activity and has shut down all networks, officials said in the letter. The school is also working with the FBI and D.C. city government officials to get a clear understanding of what happened.

The school said Enterprise Technology Services and their entities are working to urgently fix the issue. It is still unknown when the system will be restored and school officials have reiterated that, "after an incident of this kind, is a long haul – not an overnight solution."

School officials said as of Tuesday morning, they do not have evidence that personal information has been retrieved. They are still looking to determine what was exactly accessed. In the meantime, the school is installing additional safety measures to protect personal data."

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/howard-university-ransomware-cyberattack/65-15b329bf-f4f4-430a-aae7-4003df9cea89?fbclid=IwAR3KrenTFJ0kUV5HLYeIIYavay-iRNVZEyC7UbjvUTLjDsIlCGfPu-T7mtg

More classes canceled, WiFi shutdown on Howard U's campus due to ransomware cyberattack All online and hybrid undergraduate courses remain suspended Wednesday, according to school officials.