For the third year in a row, Richmond partner Ashley Taylor is co-chairing the American Conference Institute’s 15 th Advanced Global Legal & Compliance Forum titled “Cyber Security & Data Privacy and Protection.” The event, which will be held January 15 and 16 at the Washington Plaza Hotel in Washington, D.C., will include workshops on privacy and security, the fundamentals of cyber and data risk insurance, and numerous other related topics.
Most institutions today collect, use, and disclose an enormous amount of data from their users and the institutions are exposed to significant risks as they relate to data breaches, including government penalties, litigation, and damage to reputation and good will. These risks and exposures have increased through cloud computing, social media, mobile devices and online communication. As the number of breaches increase and new regulations are pending in multiple agencies, every general counsel, privacy officer, compliance professional, IT leader, risk manager, and outside counsel working in this arena needs to understand the extent of these exposures and risks, and learn how to be proactive and compliant by having the appropriate protection and risk management practices in place.
The conference is designed to be a definitive source for privacy leaders and counsel to obtain practical strategies for compliance with the latest privacy regulations, laws, and best practices for safeguarding data. Discussions at this year’s forum will focus on how companies can minimize exposure and protect sensitive data while ensuring and ensure attendees are up to date with the emerging trends in the rapidly advancing area of data privacy and information security.
In addition to co-chairing the event, Taylor is moderating a discussion titled “Unique Regulatory and Enforcement Insights by State Attorneys General and Consumer Protection Agencies on Emerging Privacy Initiatives, Settlement and Enforcement Trends, Security Breach Notification Requirements, and More.” During this event, eight panelists, most of them regulators, will discuss regulatory and enforcement insights, security breach notification requirements, new trends and laws and how to manage compliance, recent state settlement and enforcement trends, and current focuses for state attorneys general.