Bloomberg Law
Feb. 11, 2016, 3:11 PM UTC

Global Law Firms May Have India Cybersecurity Chances

Bloomberg Law - Staff Reports

By Amrit Dhillon, Bloomberg BNA

Using lawyers to tackle cybersecurity issues, data breach response and cybercrime recourse is uncharted territory in India. The field is wide open, with only a handful of law firms specializing in cybersecurity cases for corporate clients, analysts told Bloomberg BNA.

Since there is no dedicated law in India to tackle cybercrime and no mandatory requirement that a company or institution that has faced a data breach must report it, the demand for law firms to handle such cases is feeble.

Currently, when companies suffer a data breach, they don’t go to the police, much less ...

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