Cyber Resilience for Your Practice: Practical Strategies to Prevent and Mitigate Cyber Attacks
WEB213N01C: Worried your firm will be a target of cybercrime with the increase threats of cyberattacks in Australia? Join Simone Herbert-Lowe, Director of Law & Cyber over one hour and receive both prevention and mitigation strategies to improving your cyber resilience in 2021. You don’t want to miss out on this highly important session.
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair: Lisa Gooneratne, Special Counsel, HWL Ebsworth Lawyers
Practice Management and Business Skills
Cyber Resilience for Your Practice: Practical Strategies to Prevent and Mitigate Cyber Attacks
Cybercrime is predicted to lead to the biggest transfer of wealth in human history, and in Australia cyber security incidents have been estimated to cost businesses up to $29 billion per year. Your legal practice could be a target because you act on high value funds transfers, or hold confidential and sensitive information.
In this session you will step through a five pronged approach to increasing your practice’s cyber resilience by focusing on both prevention and mitigation strategies.
Presented by Simone Herbert-Lowe, Director, Law & Cyber
Presenters
Lisa Gooneratne, Special Counsel, HWL Ebsworth Lawyers
Lisa has extensive experience in personal injury insurance law, in a variety of areas. Lisa acts for both private insurers and Government agencies, in the areas of public liability, workers compensation, medical negligence, coronial inquests, medical disciplinary matters and motor vehicle accidents. Lisa also acts for a self-insurers, including a national airline and national banks, in relation to personal injury claims. Lisa is actively involved in the ACT legal community, being a former chair of the Young Lawyers Committee and currently a Commissioner and Board member of the ACT Legal Aid Commission.
Simone Herbert-Lowe, Director, Law & Cyber
Simone Herbert-Lowe is the founding director of Law & Cyber, which provides legal services and risk mitigation advice to professional firms and other businesses. Simone provides cyber risk education seminars and advises companies impacted by cyber events, including acting as insurance claims advocate and in dispute resolution. Simone has written extensively in the area of cyber risk and professional responsibility, with articles featured in the Law Society of NSW Journal, the Australasian Law Management Journal and numerous Lawcover publications.