On 7 September 2021 KIELTYKA GLADKOWSKI will take part in the Webinar Analysing the Role of Telemedicine in Post-Pandemic Careorganised by Reuters Events in conjunction with the Digital Health division of the World Health Organisation which provides opportunities to accelerate progress in attaining health and well-being related Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs), especially SDG 3, and achieving triple billion targets for 2023 as articulated in its Thirteenth General Programme of Work (GPW13).
The webinar will focus on the growing
importance of remote telemedicine, its aspects and opportunities. The speakers
will include:
– Peter Thomas, CCIO and Director of
Digital Medicine at Moorfields Eye Hospital
– Toralf Schnell, Chief Digital Officer and
Head of the Digitization Unit at University Medicine Greifswald
– Dr. Evgeny Zheleznyakov, Technical
Officer, WHO European Centre for Primary Health Care.
Telemedicine and digital health remains in
the core specialisation of lifescience and healthcare expertise of KIELTYKA
GLADKOWSKI, having vast experience in handling projects at the intersection of
new technologies and healthcare, including data protection, regulatory and
transactional aspects.
On 2 to 4 November 2021 KIELTYKA GLADKOWSKI KG LEGAL will take part in the virtual SPG 2021 Forum organised by R3 (Association of Business Recovery Professionals) SPG Forum (link) is a conference for trustees, restructuring experts and their employees.
During this 3-day event, our lawyers will have the opportunity to discuss the
practical issues, participate in workshops and network with peers.
Some of the topics discussed will be the current regulatory framework for
insolvency practitioners, key legal changes affecting the insolvency and
restructuring of people and companies, and the exclusion of directors, the FCA’s
guidelines for managers appointed or intended to be appointed by regulated
firms; panel sessions with representatives of the financial industry discussing
their experiences with the pandemic, recovery and new market trends; workshops,
during which it will be possible to look at issues related to the insolvency of
a real estate enterprise; workshop sessions during which the investigation and
prosecution of claims in insolvent real estate will be discussed in-depth; interactive
workshops, entirely devoted to the possibilities of the hotel business dealing
with the challenges of the pandemic.
Identification of the hacking problem – study on the example of law firm clients providing cyber security solutions
Identification of the hacking problem
Based on the US Cybersecurity Trends Report (link to an
online source at the end of the article), the hacking phenomenon records an
increase in cyber-attacks in 2019 and 2020. From the legal perspective, what is
particularly interesting is a significant increase in the recorded data loss
events as a result of hacking activities in relation to the number of cases in
individual years in the 2015-2020 prediction. One of the studies in the
indicated report shows two specific moments over the years. The first one took
place in 2016-2017, where we see an increase in hacker attacks by nearly 2,000
violations, but this is not related to a proportional increase in lost data,
which differs from those from 2016 by about 1.5 million. In 2017, there was a
slight increase in infringements, but more importantly, less data was lost. The
second of these important moments indicated by the experts took place in
2018-2019, when there was a drastic increase in lost data with a slight
increase in violations compared to 2018. We are seeing a drastic decrease in
the number of breaches with a simultaneous huge increase in lost data.
From the analysis of the report, a surprising conclusion
can be drawn that currently data breaches by hackers are less and less frequent
compared to previous years, but much more effective.
The report also shows annual global cybersecurity
transactions and equity financing in 2016-2021. In this respect there can be
observed the huge projected increase in cash outlays for the cybersecurity
target compared to 2020. The projected increase is over $ 10 billion. Despite
the increase in spending, there has been a decline in the number of
cybersecurity contracts.
The report presents the share of global cybersecurity
transactions in 2020 by country. The first thing that throws up is that the US
has over a half of shares in global market and is thus becoming a sort of
hegemon in the fight against hackers. China ranks second with 12%. On the other
hand, Israel ranks third with a 10% share, also showing a 4% increase compared
to 2019. With the same trend, it has a good chance of overtaking China in this
respect. The report shows the number of annual departures from the
cybersecurity sector through mergers and acquisitions and stock market debuts.
In the years 2016-2019, an upward trend can be noticed. From year to year, the
number of departures increased by 100.
The report also shows the ratio of the increase in the
number of the so-called megarounds (contracts worth over $100 million), which
results in an increase in the volume of transactions.
All these increases in value did not go unnoticed. The
consequence of the development of this type of industry, which is
cybersecurity, is the creation and development of private companies. There are
already over 30 companies in the world involved in the development of
cybersecurity technologies, the value of which exceeds $ 1 billion. In Europe,
for example, Acronis is such a company.
Almost 75% of cyber defenders are based in the United
States, most of them in California. Second place, with almost 20% concentration
of cyber defenders, is Israel. Canada and Ireland boast one “cyber
defender” within their borders. In Canada it is the company
“Isara”, and in Ireland “Tines”.
Methods of counteracting cyber attacks
There can be differentiated various methods of counteracting cyber-attacks. Most innovative ones are presented below:
The main task of the Polish Platform for Handling Investment Projects (POPI)
is fast and accurate implementation of broadly understood investment projects,
which is (as the Polish Ministry of Health maintains) one of the most important
activities of the Ministry of Health. In order to bypass many entities that
would be involved in the implementation of a given investment, the Ministry of
Health brought to life the POPI platform, which automated the above-mentioned
process and thus facilitated navigation in the area of investment projects and
increased the number of investment projects implemented in the area of health.
The platform for servicing investment projects of the Polish Ministry of Health
is a place bringing together entities that are directly involved in the process
of launching investment projects. As part of this platform, entities can apply
for funds for any investment co-financed by the Ministry of Health.
Additionally, the POPI platform can function as a place where applications are
assessed, and the given investments are monitored and settled. It should also
be remembered that mutual contact regarding the implementation of specific
investments is also part of POPI.
The Investment Project Support Platform (POPI) is available at the
following address:
It is also important that in order to fully use the POPI platform, it is
required to set up an account through a certified profile, and to submit the
application with the use of a qualified electronic signature.
On
15 September 2021 partners of KIEŁTYKA GŁADKOWSKI KG LEGAL LAW
FIRM will take part in the summit devoted to the future of EU’s currency,
organized and hosted by Bitkom, which is a German digital association, founded
1999 in Berlin, representing more than 2,000 companies of the digital economy.
Their membership spans more than 1,000 SMEs, over 500 startups and virtually
all global players.
The
Euro Summit organizers will discuss the questions of the future of the present monetary
system and economy; the key drivers of the digital euro; the
co-existence or competition between a central bank digital currency and private
payments or crypto-assets.
KIELTYKA
GLADKOWSKI will take part in panel discussions in the following areas:
Digital
euro: A Threat or Opportunity for Banks?
What do we need the
digital euro for?
Design choices and their
trade-offs
From cryptocurrencies,
stablecoins and Diem to CBDCs
CBDCs and stablecoins –
the race for mainstream adoption
How crypto is
revolutionizing our financial system
How decentralized and
disintermediated will the future of finance look like?
