WLC 2021-2022

Critical Cybersecurity Updates:

Digital Extortion; International Supply Chain Attacks; and Critical Infrastructure Risk

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In our sixth year of programming, Women Leaders in Cybersecurity presents Critical Cybersecurity Updates: Digital Extortion; International Supply Chain Attacks; and Critical Infrastructure Risk. The event featured a star lineup of women speakers from government, the private sector and academia for an interdisciplinary discussion of the legal, policy, technological and ethical issues regarding these key concerns.

Tuesday
December 7,
2021

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Virtual Event
10:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.

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Featured Speakers

DOJ Perspectives

**Eun Young Choi**
**Senior Counsel for Cyber to the Deputy Attorney General**
U.S. Department of Justice
**Former Cybercrime Coordinator & Assistant United States Attorney**
United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York

Keynote

**Melissa Hathaway**
**President**
Hathaway Global Strategies LLC

**Former Cybersecurity Chief**
National Security Council

**Board of Directors**
Centre for International Governance Innovation

Panelists

**Edna Conway**
**Vice President, Security and Risk Officer**
Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure, Microsoft
**Member, Cyber Fellows Advisory Council**
NYU Tandon School of Engineering
**Former Chief Security Officer, Global Value Chain**
Cisco

**Deneen DeFiore**
**Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer**
United Airlines
**Board Member**
Internet Security Alliance
**Former Senior Vice President Global Chief Information & Product Security Officer**
GE Aviation

**Micaela McMurrough**
**Partner**
Covington and Burling, LLP
**Former United States Presidential Leadership Scholar**
**Former Intelligence Officer**
Military Intelligence Branch, U.S. Army

**Boyden Rohner**
**Associate Director for Vulnerability Management**
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
**Former Deputy Director for Operations**
National Cyber and Communications Integrations Center

**Former Director of Cybersecurity Operations, Information Security Office**
Department of Homeland Security

Judith H. Germano
(Moderator)
**Distinguished Fellow and Women Leaders Program Chair**
NYU Center for Cybersecurity
*Professor*, NYU Masters in Cybersecurity Risk & Strategy
*Adjunct Professor of Law*, NYU School of Law
**Founder**
GermanoLaw LLC

CLE Readings

This event has been approved for two New York State CLE credits in the category of Areas of Professional Practice. The credit is both transitional and non-transitional; it is appropriate for both experienced and newly admitted attorneys.

“Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco Announces New Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative,” U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs. October 6, 2021.

“Peters and Portman Introduce Bipartisan Legislation Requiring Critical Infrastructure Entities to Report Cyber-Attacks,” U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. September 28, 2021.

“Updated Advisory on Potential Sanctions Risks for Facilitating Ransomware Payments,” U.S. Department of the Treasury. September 21, 2021.

“Advisory on Potential Sanctions Risks for Facilitating Ransomware Payments,” U.S. Department of the Treasury. October 1, 2020.

“OFAC Issues New Ransomware Guidance And First Sanctions Designation Against Virtual Currency Exchange,” Morrison & Foerster LLP. JDSupra. September 23, 2021.

“OFAC Issues Updated Ransomware Advisory and Designates Virtual Currency Exchange,” Kevin McCart, Claiborne W. Porter, Sassi Riar. The National Law Review. October 1, 2021.

“Cybersecurity Risk and Responsibility in the Water Sector,” Judith H. Germano. American Water Works Association. 2019.

“What’s Good for Litigation Isn’t Necessarily Good for Cybersecurity,” Randy Milch. Lawfare. March 5, 2021.

The NYU Center for Cybersecurity (CCS) is an interdisciplinary research institute dedicated to training the current and future generations of cybersecurity professionals and to shaping the public discourse and policy, legal, and technological landscape on issues of cybersecurity.

Thank you to Craig Newmark Philanthropies and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for their generous support.