Posts by John Lande

John Lande primarily represents financial institutions, privately held businesses, and municipal utilities. He has experience dealing with a variety of legal topics including creditors’ rights in bankruptcy, business torts, agency regulatory actions, municipal law, contract disputes, and business dissolutions. John has represented clients in numerous hearings and trials in Iowa district court, federal court, and appeals to the Iowa Court of Appeals, Iowa Supreme Court, and Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.

John advises financial institutions on a variety of topics including cybersecurity, internal/criminal investigations, check and wire fraud, insider transactions, collections, examinations, and enforcement actions. His focus is on helping banks implement best practices to avoid litigation and disputes in the future. John has appeared at hearings before the Iowa Division of Banking, FDIC, and Federal Reserve in Iowa and Washington D.C.

John also serves as general counsel to municipal utilities. He advises utilities on governance, open record and meetings laws, rates, public bidding, and any other legal issues they may confront.

John is chair of the firm’s Cybersecurity, Data Breach, & Privacy practice group. He regularly contributes to the firm’s Cybersecurity Law and Banking Law Blogs.

Posted on 06/12/2019 at 09:10 AM by John Lande

Swimming in Cybersecurity Alphabet Soup

Well-intentioned organizations trying to implement cybersecurity best practices can quickly become discouraged by the oc...

Posted on 06/03/2019 at 08:35 AM by John Lande

Don’t Let Cyber-Vulnerabilities Be Eternal

One of the easiest ways to prevent a cybersecurity incident is to ensure that software patches are implemented. Despite...

Posted on 05/22/2019 at 04:04 PM by John Lande

Bank to Customer: We’re Not Your Insurance Company

Cybersecurity incidents routinely grab headlines, and for good reason. These incidents often lead to exposure of large v...

Posted on 05/06/2019 at 01:36 PM by John Lande

HHS Releases Cybersecurity Threat Mitigation Guide

  The Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) has released the “Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices: Managin...

Posted on 04/26/2019 at 10:56 AM by John Lande

Fraudsters May Determine Whether You Have Cyber-Insurance

Many organizations are surprised to learn in the wake of a cyber-incident that their “cyber” insurance does not cover th...

Posted on 03/29/2019 at 11:23 AM by John Lande

Auto-Update Leads to Auto-Hack

News broke recently that hackers exploited a backdoor to as many as 1 million ASUS computers by compromising the ASUS au...