The Convergence of Trade Secret Theft and Cybersecurity:
An In-House Counsel’s Primer on Mitigating Risks

In today’s world, companies are consistently faced with business operations that have expanded across the globe, employees constantly moving from location to location, virtually all assets being digital and connected to the internet, and unscrupulous competitors, even countries, trying to take advantage to help enhance their business fortunes and economies. On top of these changes, the rapid growth of the digital economy and our ever expanding connectivity has created more ways to steal trade secrets that are now easily scanned, copied, downloaded or exfiltrated. As a result, trade secret theft has become a rapidly growing global problem. Indeed, estimates of...