BY ART EHUAN, ALVAREZ & MARSAL and LISA J. SOTTO, HUNTON & WILLIAMS LLP -- In February 2013, following the failure of legislative initiatives and in response to increasingly sophisticated and ever-growing cyber threats directed at businesses and government agencies from hackers, hacktivists...

The Internet Policy Task Force, made up of several parts of the U.S. Department of Commerce, issued a report this summer identifying “leading public policy and operational challenges in the digital economy,” and providing approaches designed to “strengthen protections for consumer data...