Trending Up: Review of Cyber Litigations in 2023 and Going Into 2024

Overview of Trending Up: Review of Cyber Litigations in 2023 and Going Into 2024

Panelists provide background on the 2023 cybersecurity threat landscape and modes of attack, including the MOVEit breach, then outline new and proposed SEC cyber rules and their disclosure requirements. They focus on the defining cybersecurity litigations of 2023, such as Merck v. ACE American Insurance, sharing key lessons and what to prepare for in 2024.

What you’ll learn in Trending Up: Review of Cyber Litigations in 2023 and Going Into 2024

• Summarize the 2023 data breach and threat landscape
• Explain new and proposed SEC cyber rules
• Extract lessons from defining 2023 cyber litigations
• Anticipate cyber litigation concerns for 2024

Curriculum

1. 1. Data Breach and Cybersecurity Landscape in 2023

   Modes of attack and major breaches such as MOVEit.

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2. 2. Tightening of Cybersecurity Regulation: New and Proposed SEC Cyber Rules

   Disclosure requirements and proposed consumer protection rules.

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3. 3. Legal Responses to Digital Threats and Breaches

   Defining cybersecurity litigations of 2023 and their lessons.

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4. 4. Critical Concern for Cyber Litigations in 2024

   What to expect and prepare for in the year ahead.

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Your instructors

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.

Thomas Vanaskie

Of Counsel, Stevens & Lee (Hon., Ret.)

Stevens & Lee

The Honorable Thomas I. Vanaskie is Of Counsel at Stevens & Lee, where he chairs the firm's Appellate and Mediation, Neutral Services, and Alternative Dispute Resolution practice groups. He served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 2010 to 2018 and, before that, as a district judge on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania for 16 years, including seven as chief judge. Over more than four decades in the legal profession he has litigated or overseen hundreds of complex cases and now serves as a mediator, arbitrator, and court-appointed special master.

Brian Levine

Former EY-Parthenon Managing Director, Cybersecurity and Data Privacy, Ernst & Young LLP

Ernst & Young

Brian Levine is a cybersecurity and data privacy lawyer who served as EY-Parthenon Managing Director, Cybersecurity and Data Privacy at Ernst & Young LLP, leading a cybersecurity and data privacy team focused on the strategic application of security in the context of capital transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and restructurings. He joined EY from the U.S. Department of Justice, where he served as the National Coordinator for more than 300 federal prosecutors focused on investigating and prosecuting computer crime and intellectual property crime, and served as a federal prosecutor and senior counsel with the DOJ's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. Earlier he served as an Assistant Attorney General for the Internet & Technology Bureau of the New York Attorney General's Office. He earned his BA from the University of Pennsylvania and his JD from New York University School of Law. At Legal Cyber Academy, Brian Levine teaches on vendor and data breach risk, financial-sector cybersecurity, and cyber litigation trends.

David Hamilton

Managing Counsel, Global Privacy and Security

Fiserv

David Hamilton is Managing Counsel for Global Privacy and Security at Fiserv, the Fortune 250 fintech and payments company (which includes its Clover payments business). His work spans privacy and data protection regimes including GLBA, GDPR, CCPA, LGPD, PIPEDA, HIPAA, CAN-SPAM, and TCPA, with extensive experience representing financial institutions and FinTechs. He began his career in law and technology in Northern Ireland and has practiced law in New York for over a decade. He is accredited by the IAPP as a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US).

Jeffrey Caso

Expert Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company

McKinsey & Company

Jeffrey Caso is an expert associate partner in McKinsey & Company's cybersecurity practice, based in the firm's Washington, DC office. He works on market growth strategy, digital risk and technology strategy, and on business-building in cybersecurity with enterprises, investors and leading cybersecurity providers. He co-leads Cyber Threat Snapshot, McKinsey's deep web threat intelligence offering, and has published on cyberwarfare, privacy regulation and the impact of COVID-19 on cyber markets. He holds a B.S.F.S. in science, technology and international affairs from Georgetown University. At Legal Cyber Academy he teaches on the U.S. National Cybersecurity Strategy, cyber litigation trends, and board cyber readiness.