Legal Cyber Academy

Weathering the Storm: Insights on the SolarWinds Wells Notice

Taught by Daniel B. Garrie

Securities LawLevel: Intermediate1h 4m

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Overview of Weathering the Storm: Insights on the SolarWinds Wells Notice

A panel reviews the SolarWinds cyber attack, its technical complexity and breadth of affected parties, then examines the regulatory response including Executive Order 14028 and the SEC's 2023 cybersecurity disclosure rules. The session focuses on the June 2023 Wells Notice, the first to directly name a CISO, and its implications for executive liability, concluding with best practices to safeguard organizations.

What you’ll learn in Weathering the Storm: Insights on the SolarWinds Wells Notice

  • Understand the SolarWinds attack, its methods and scope
  • Explain the regulatory response and SEC disclosure rules
  • Assess the executive and CISO liability implications of the Wells Notice
  • Apply best practices to mitigate cyber risk and executive exposure

Audience and prerequisites

Who should take this courseWeathering the Storm: Insights on the SolarWinds Wells Notice

Attorneys, compliance officers, and executives advising on cybersecurity, securities disclosure, and executive liability.

Curriculum

  1. 1. Weathering the Storm: Insights on the SolarWinds Wells Notice

    What You Will Learn In this seminar, our panel of industry leaders begin by reviewing the SolarWinds attack to highlight key facts, the technical complexity of the attack method, and the breadth of affected parties. Our speakers then review the response to the breach, and focus on the SEC’s June 2023 Wells Notice, to highlight its potential implications for executive liability. The panel concludes the discussion by highlighting best practices to safeguard organizations and avoid the pitfalls of digital threats. Topics covered in this webinar: The SolarWinds Cyber Attack Regulatory Response Wells Notice Looking Ahead and Best Practices

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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 Rick Borden

Rick Borden

Senior Director and Assistant General Counsel — Privacy, Cybersecurity, AI and Patents, JFrog

Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz

Rick Borden is a privacy and data security lawyer in New York. He is senior director and assistant general counsel for privacy, cybersecurity, AI and patents at the software platform JFrog, which he joined in 2025. He was previously a partner in the Data Strategy, Privacy & Security Group at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, which he joined in September 2022 from Willkie Farr & Gallagher, and he has also served in-house as a chief privacy officer. His practice has centered on FinTech, InsurTech, cloud computing and other tech-forward companies, advising on technology transactions and representing them in regulatory disputes, including high-profile investigations before the New York State Department of Financial Services and other agencies. He sits on the board of editors of the Journal of Law and Cyber Warfare and has taught information governance, cyber warfare and cybersecurity at the University of Connecticut School of Law, the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and Rutgers Law School. At Legal Cyber Academy he teaches on the SolarWinds Wells Notice and cybersecurity enforcement.

Portrait of Craig Martin

Craig Martin

Partner, Morrison Foerster

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Craig D. Martin is a partner in Morrison Foerster's San Francisco office, where his practice covers investigations and white collar defense, securities enforcement, securities litigation, and public company advisory and governance. He is co-chair of the firm's Investigations + White Collar Defense practice and was the firm's firmwide managing partner from 2012 to 2022. He was an enforcement attorney in the SEC's San Francisco Regional Office from 1999 to 2002, where he worked on financial accounting fraud and insider trading matters and led one of the largest insider trading cases in the agency's history, in which 15 individuals were charged. He holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. At Legal Cyber Academy he teaches on the SolarWinds Wells notice and SEC cybersecurity enforcement.

Portrait of Lana Yang

Lana Yang

Senior Counsel and Senior Manager of Information Governance, Security and Privacy

Lana Yang is senior counsel and senior manager of information governance, security and privacy, working on information governance programmes, data security and privacy compliance within a corporate legal department. She holds the International Association of Privacy Professionals' CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT and AI Governance Professional certifications, and studied law at Columbia Law School. At Legal Cyber Academy she teaches on the SolarWinds Wells Notice and cybersecurity enforcement.

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