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KINAST is ranked among the Top 5 of Data Protection Law Firms in Germany

28. October 2022

We are very pleased about our renewed top placement in this year’s ranking of the Kanzleimonitor* study 2022-23 and would like to thank all clients who recommended us!

In the field of Data Protection Law, we achieved 5th place with numerous direct recommendations. Our firm can thus once again hold its own in a strong field of competitors alongside various large law firms (including Taylor Wessing, Osborne Clarke) in the absolute top group in Data Protection Law.

Three of our Attorneys are also mentioned by name in the current ranking of personal recommendations: Kristin Bauer, Dr. Karsten Kinast and Benjamin Schuh.

We are particularly pleased with this study result, as it is a transparent, direct evaluation from our clients and is carried out by our own professional group of lawyers.

Many thanks again to all clients who have recommended us (again)!

*The German Kanzleimonitor study (law firm monitor) (“kanzleimonitor.de – recommendation is the best reference”) provides an annual comprehensive ranking of the 100 most recommended lawyers and law firms in each legal field in Germany. This overview is intended to serve corporate lawyers in all industries as a selection criterion for mandating commercial law firms.

Main cause for data breaches in organizations: data theft by „insiders“

11. August 2016

The Ponemon Institute has recently published a study about security gaps and the protection of corporate data. The study was carried within U.S. and European organizations in France, Germany and the United Kingdom. The study aims at identifying gaps in organizations that may lead to data breaches.

The study reveals data theft by “insiders” as being the main reason for data breaches within organizations. A vast majority of the participants stated that their organization had suffered from such insider theft over the past two years.

Furthermore, respondents of the IT field confirmed that insider theft is twice more likely to compromise corporate information as any other external attack. Regarding this, the study reveals that data breaches by insiders is increasing due to the fact that employees require wide access rights to perform their job and, therefore, they have access to confidential and sensitive information of their organization.

The report suggests that companies should improve their tracking possibilities, in order to identify access and use of data by its employees and to detect in a shorter timeframe the intents of employees to access information and data which they are not authorized to see.