Legal Cyber Academy

Current State of Cyber Threats: Should You Do A Tabletop?

Taught by Daniel B. Garrie

Cyber IncidentsLevel: Beginner1h

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Overview of Current State of Cyber Threats: Should You Do A Tabletop?

Law firms face cyber threats that this seminar addresses, along with the value of tabletop exercises. Panelists give an overview of cybersecurity and the current threats law firms face, review relevant guidance and regulations, discuss recent data breaches affecting law firms, and introduce cyber risk assessments and tabletops. They conclude with additional strategies for cyber risk mitigation.

What you’ll learn in Current State of Cyber Threats: Should You Do A Tabletop?

  • Understand the cyber threats law firms face and the data being targeted
  • Apply relevant cybersecurity guidance and regulations
  • Learn from recent law-firm data breaches
  • Use risk assessments and tabletop exercises to mitigate risk

Audience and prerequisites

Who should take this courseCurrent State of Cyber Threats: Should You Do A Tabletop?

Attorneys and staff at firms of all sizes managing their practice's cyber risk.

Curriculum

  1. 1. Current State of Cyber Threats Facing Law Firms: Should You Do A Tabletop? 

    In this seminar, our expert panelists begin by giving an overview of cybersecurity, the current cyber threats that law firms face, and what information is being targeted. Next, our speakers discuss some of the relevant guidance and regulations on cybersecurity. Our panelists then discuss recent data breaches that have affected law firms, how they happened, and what we can learn from them. Following this discussion of the risks, our speakers introduce cyber risk assessments and tabletops, highlighting how they work and their key features. Our speakers conclude by discussing additional strategies of cyber risk mitigation for attorneys to consider in protecting their practice. Topics covered in this webinar: Overview of Cybersecurity Legislation and Regulatory Guidance Data Breaches Af

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Your instructors

Portrait of Daniel B. Garrie

Daniel B. Garrie

Founder, Law & Forensics; Neutral at JAMS; Faculty at Harvard

Law & Forensics LLC · JAMS · Harvard · Rutgers Law School · Journal of Law & Cyber Warfare

Daniel B. Garrie is the founder and executive managing partner of Law & Forensics LLC, a boutique cybersecurity and forensic engineering firm he co-founded in 2008. He serves as a neutral, arbitrator, and forensic special master at JAMS, focusing on cybersecurity, cryptocurrency, and complex technology disputes, and holds faculty appointments at Harvard and Rutgers Law School. A patented software inventor and prolific author, he is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law & Cyber Warfare and a widely cited authority on computer forensics, eDiscovery, and cyber litigation.

Portrait of Rhea Siers

Rhea Siers

Senior Advisor, Cybersecurity Risk and Policy Issues, Teneo Risk Advisory

Teneo · National Security Agency (former) · George Washington University

Rhea Siers is a senior advisor on cybersecurity risk and policy issues at Teneo Risk Advisory, where she counsels C-suite executives on cyber issues. She spent three decades at the National Security Agency (1981-2012), serving as an attorney and counsel in its Office of General Counsel, Deputy Associate Director for Policy and Strategic Communications, and NSA's senior representative to the FBI. She later led cyber security defense strategy at Bank of America and was senior counsel in the cybersecurity practice at Zeichner, Ellman and Krause. Siers is adjunct faculty at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs and at Johns Hopkins University, was Scholar in Residence at GW's Center for Cyber and Homeland Security, and co-authored Cyberwarfare: Understanding the Law, Policy and Technology. At Legal Cyber Academy, Rhea Siers teaches on the current state of cyber threats and whether organizations should run tabletop exercises.

Portrait of Scott Corzine

Scott Corzine

Board-Level Strategic Advisor, Corzine Global Advisors, LLC

Corzine Global Advisors, LLC

Scott Corzine is a board-level strategic advisor and board member who works through Corzine Global Advisors, LLC, having previously served as a managing director in CohnReznick's Cybersecurity, Technology Risk and Privacy practice. He advises boards and senior management on cyber resilience, operational risk, governance, compliance strategy and cybersecurity readiness for M&A, working with private sector entities in multiple sectors, universities, not-for-profits, and state and federal government organisations in the U.S. and abroad. He established and managed the cybersecurity and operational risk management practices at Risk Solutions International, LLC, FTI Consulting, Ankura Consulting and CohnReznick Advisory, LLC, and has helped manage a series of early-stage technology and business services ventures to successful exits as a senior executive, CEO and board member. At Legal Cyber Academy he teaches on the current state of cyber threats and tabletop exercises.

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