A high level presentation about cyber risk, information security and data governance, and the implications for managing data within organisations, including different types of business risk and the legal aspects.
The presentation introduces concepts of

• • keeping information secure,
  • safely share information when collaborating with other organisations,

• legal aspects – Privacy Act, Security of Critical Infrastructure legislation and other legal liability issues.
• overview of cyber resilience generally through Prevention (Technology, People & Processes) and Mitigation (Incident Management & Insurance)

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About the speaker:

Simone Herbert-Lowe, Director Law & Cyber Pty Ltd

Simone acts for businesses impacted by cyber events. She has nearly 30 years of experience as a lawyer including 20 years managing legal claims against professionals. Since 2017, Simone’s practice has focused on cyber risk and she has provided expert evidence in Supreme Court proceedings related to email-enabled fraud. Her other areas of legal practice include insurance, professional liability and ethics, dispute resolution, and privacy.

Before establishing Law & Cyber, Simone was Manager, Strategy & Innovation and the Senior Claims Solicitor at Lawcover, the professional indemnity insurer for NSW law practices, where she handled more than 2,000 professional indemnity notifications against law firms. Between 2016 and 2018 Simone led Lawcover’s innovative response to cyber risk and the launch of its cyber risk policy. She was the principal author of the company’s cyber risk publications and sat on the company’s cyber risk committee.

Simone has an MBA (Executive) from AGSM, a Master of Law & Management from AGSM/UNSW Law, and bachelor’s degrees in Law and Arts from UNSW. In 2016 she was awarded AGSM’s Wanbil Lee Prize for Ethical Leadership in Business.   She has served as:

• Legal Member, Cancer Institute of NSW Clinical Trials Ethics Comm
• Legal Member, Joint NSW Health and Cancer Institute Population Health Ethics Committee
• Member, Australian Insurance Law Association Education Committee