Data Sharing and Cybersecurity: Risks and Challenges
Major uncertainty prevails currently around privacy and data sharing, so it’s essential that you are continuously up to date on the latest changes particularly in relation to data breaches. Consider how to protect data in the age of big data and AI and gain strategies for successful data sharing. Review the latest key issues around cybersecurity and data breach and be prepared to protect your clients and your practice. Receive practical guidance on assessing a serious breach. WEB232N06Z
Description
Attend and earn 2 CPD units in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair: Farhana Islam, Special Counsel, Maddocks
1.00pm to 2.00pm Data Sharing: The Perils, Pitfalls, and Practical Solutions
This seminar will discuss the privacy risks of data sharing and provide a framework to ensure that it occurs in a legally sound manner. It will particularly focus on:
- Risks associated with sharing particular types of data, including biometric information obtained through facial recognition or other tools, health data, and metadata
- Privacy and other confidentiality limitations, and other legislative secrecy provisions
- Strategies for ensuring successful and safe data sharing, including how to achieve a robust data sharing agreement
Presented by Katherine Armytage, Partner, Maddocks
2.00pm to 3.00pm Cybersecurity and Data Breach
- Key features of the mandatory data breach notification framework
- How to identify key issues, stakeholders and potential pitfalls
- Practical tips for assessing whether or not there has been a serious breach
- Managing stakeholder communication: being prepared and matters to consider
Presented by Isabelle Guyot, Managing Associate, Allens
Presenters
Katherine Armytage
Katherine Armytage is a partner in the Maddocks Canberra office, where she provides a broad range for commercial law services to Australian Government clients. During her career, she has been lucky enough to undertake several lengthy secondments to Commonwealth agencies, where she quickly became an integral part of those agencies' legal teams and gained an extensive knowledge about the practical issues affecting Australian Government clients. Katherine is a self-confessed ‘Privacy Nerd’, having a very strong interest in privacy and information law. She actually really enjoys examining information flows associated with complex Australian Government projects, developing detailed process maps examining information flows and associated privacy and other legal risks, and coming up with creative solutions to help her clients minimise those risks. Katherine has been fortunate to be involved in some really interesting privacy matters recently – from undertaking a privacy impact assessment about the impact of the new consumer data right on the banking sector, to working through eligible data breaches involving loss of highly sensitive personal information, to looking at new projects involving the transfer of personal information into the Multi-agency Data Integration Project (MADIP).
Farhana Islam
Farhana primarily advises Commonwealth Government clients, with her practice covering administrative law, regulatory law, statutory interpretation, government law, probity and privacy. Farhana has advised, assisted and provided training to various departments, including the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, the Department of Education and Training, the Department of the Environment and Energy, the Department of Health and the National Disability Insurance Agency, to improve their administrative law decision making.
Before joining Maddocks, Farhana was a Principal Lawyer at the Department of Health, where she also acted from time to time as the Branch Manager for Legal Services. With over 10 years’ experience working as in-house counsel for government, she has a deep understanding of the government sector and has extensive experience in advising senior executives on managing legal risks, implementing new policies and good decision making in a fast changing and complex environment.
Isabelle Guyot
Isabelle is a Managing Associate in our Technology, Media and Telecommunications team and has significant experience advising on data and privacy, telecommunications and procurement matters. Isabelle specialises in providing data and privacy advice to corporate clients across a range of sectors including financial services, telecommunications and energy. She has advised on OAIC inquiries and investigations, data breach response, privacy compliance, data commercialisation projects and has assisted clients in developing data governance programs. In addition, Isabelle has significant experience in IT, telecoms and business process procurement and outsourcing arrangements, as well as corporate transactions in the technology and telecommunications sectors. Isabelle has a broad regulatory practice, including advising on various telecommunications matters.