Today, businesses of all shapes and sizes operating in our current digital landscape face the threat of cyber incidents and attacks. Yet while navigating the technical complexities of this modern challenge, organizations also face evolving and sometimes conflicting regulatory requirements for minimum security measures, controls, monitoring, or incident disclosures. While public and non-public corporations may not be subject to the same compliance demands, the risks to data security, financial well-being, legal exposure, and reputation are alike. There are many precautionary and preventative measures that organizations can take to protect themselves and minimize the damage cyber-attacks and data breaches can cause. This webinar offers a guide from legal and technical expert practitioners for counsel advising companies as well as law firms on strategies for understanding the threat landscape and confidently managing these risks.

In this seminar, our expert panelists begin by giving an overview of what cybersecurity is and the state of cyber threats in the current digital landscape. They review the ways that cyber criminals infiltrate systems and the information that they target. The panelists then outline the 2023 SEC Cybersecurity rules, their significance, and what the requirements entail. After a discussion of the regulatory requirements faced by public corporations, the speakers discuss the challenges non-public corporations must manage. Our panel then highlights the significant impact that cyber-attacks have on law firms by providing previous cases of data breaches experienced by several top law firms. Finally, the panelists provide their recommendations on the safety measures companies should take, notably, performing regular cyber risk assessments in the form of tabletop exercises.

Topics covered in this webinar:   

1.    Cybersecurity Basics and Today’s Threat Landscape
2.    SEC “Rules on Cybersecurity Risk Management, Strategy, Governance, and Incident Disclosure by Public Companies”
3.    Managing Challenges Faced by Non-Public Corporations
4.    How Data Breaches Are Affecting Law Firms
5.    Why You Should Perform a Cyber Risk Assessment

This course is brought to you by Legal Cyber Academy and is taught by Daniel B. Garrie, Esq., Founder at Law & Forensics; Neutral at JAMS; and Faculty at Harvard, Nishat Ruiter, General Counsel, TED Conferences, Justin Herring, Partner, Mayer Brown, Elizabeth Atlee, SVP/Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, CBRE, and Sean Zadig, SVP, Chief Information Security Officer, Yahoo.