Law360, Washington (May 6, 2015, 11:16 AM EDT) -- In an effort to gauge industry concerns and measure corporate responses to significant privacy and security threats, my firm, Mayer Brown LLP, conducted an informal survey of key executives and corporate counsel in 15 industry sectors between mid-November 2014 and mid-February 2015. The majority of the companies were from finance and financial institutions, professional services (law, medicine, accounting, architecture and design), utilities and energy (including extraction), health care and pharmaceuticals. While two-thirds (70 percent) of the respondents' companies have a chief information officer or both a CIO and a chief privacy officer, one-fifth (21 percent) of the companies had neither....