WLC 2023-2024

Regs, Risk & Opportunity

New Cyber Rules; AI’s Impact; Evolving Your Career

Opening Remarks

Women Leaders in Cybersecurity presents our January 26, 2024 program, Regs Risk & Opportunity: New Cyber Rules, AI’s Impact, Evolving Your Career. Returning to in-person programming, more than a dozen leaders, including government officials, corporate board members, industry VPs, law firm partners, and professors will share insight on the new cyber rules from the SEC and NYDFS; AI’s impact on business and law; and important perspectives for evolving your career, whether to gain a board seat, advance in your firm or company, or enter a new field at any stage of your career…and finding happiness and purpose along the way.

Friday
January 26,
2024

NYU School of Law, Greenberg Lounge
9:30 A.M. – 3:00 P.M.

Speakers

Panel 1 | 9:30 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.

Cyber Regulations: the New SEC and NYDFS Rules

Panelist

Melissa Hathaway

President
Hathaway Global Strategies LLC

Former cybersecurity advisor to two U.S. presidents; former corporate board member

Panelist

Harriet Pearson

Executive Deputy Superintendent, Cybersecurity Division Head
New York Department of Financial Services

Panelist

Alicia Lowery Rosenbaum

VP, Associate General Counsel, Cybersecurity Technology and Trust
Salesforce

Panelist

Carolyn Welshhans

Associate Director, Division of Enforcement
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Moderator

Jennifer Archie

Partner
Latham & Watkins, LLP

Fireside Chat | 11:05 a.m. – 11:35 a.m.

Featured Speaker

Linnie Haynesworth

Board Director
ADP, Inc., Micron Technology, Inc., Truist Financial Corp., Eastman Chemical Co.

Federal Advisory Appointee
DoD Defense Business Board

Moderator

Judith H. Germano

Distinguished Fellow
NYU Center for Cybersecurity

Adjunct Professor of Law
NYU School of Law

Founder and Lead Counsel
GermanoLaw LLC 

Board Director
Dime Community Bancshares, Inc.

Program Chair
Women Leaders in Cybersecurity

Panel 2 | 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

AI’s Impact: Opportunity and Risk

Panelist

Jennifer Kady

Vice President, Security Sales, Americas General Manager
IBM

Panelist

Maneesha Mithal

Partner, Privacy & Cybersecurity
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Panelist

JoAnn Stonier

Fellow of Data & AI
Mastercard

Panelist

Lucy Vasserman

Head of Engineering and Product
Jigsaw / Google

Moderator

Micaela McMurrough

Partner
Covington & Burling, LLP

Panel 3 | 1:30 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.

Evolving Your Career: Building Your Personal Brand

Panelist

Linda Lautenberg

Co-Founder
EvolveMe

Panelist

Kavitha Mariappan

Executive Vice President, Customer Experience & Transformation
Zscaler

Panelist

Andrea Markstrom

CIO
Schulte Roth & Zabel

Founder
iWill

Panelist

Harriet Pearson

Executive Deputy Superintendent, Cybersecurity Division Head
New York Department of Financial Services

Panelist

Alicia Lowery Rosenbaum

VP, Associate General Counsel, Cybersecurity Technology and Trust
Salesforce

Moderator

Kathryn Lancioni

Professor
Rutgers University

Founder
Presenting Perfection

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.

Panel 1: 1.5 cybersecurity credits

Panel 2: 1.5 cybersecurity credits 

Fireside Chat: .5 cybersecurity credits

Panel 3: CLE request pending

Panel 1

SEC New Cybersecurity Rules, Adopted July 26, 2023 

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-139

https://www.sec.gov/files/rules/final/2023/33-11216.pdf

https://www.sec.gov/files/33-11216-fact-sheet.pdf

https://wowlw.com/Article/Index/16

https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en-us/posts/government/sec-cybersecurity-rules/

NY DFS Part 500 Cybersecurity Rules, Amended Nov. 2023

https://www.dfs.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2023/12/rf23_nycrr_part_500_amend02_20231101.pdf

https://www.dfs.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2023/11/cyber_public_training_deck_20231108.pdf

https://www.debevoise.com/insights/publications/2023/11/a-summary-of-the-final-amendments-to-the-nydfs

Panel 2

White House's Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights

NIST AI Risk Management Framework

  • NIST has also launched the Trustworthy & Responsible AI Resource Center, which includes a companion piece to the AI Risk Management Framework, the AI Risk Management Framework Playbook (to view, scroll down & download as PDF), which breaks down the four AI Risk Management Framework functions (Govern, Map, Measure, Manage) to make suggestions to organizations as to how they can use the information in the RMF.

White House's Strengthening and Democratizing the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Innovation Ecosystem documents the work towards a national AI research resource

EU Artificial Intelligence Act

·  EU's short background on the Act, including why people should care along with some issues with the Act 

National Artificial Intelligence Initiative's subsection titled Use of AI in the Private Sector

MIT Sloan on SEC Gensler's Remarks on How AI is Changing Finance

Joint Statement of CFPB-DOJ-EEOC-FTC on Enforcement Efforts Against Discrimination and Bias in Automated Systems 

Forbes - Samsun Bans ChatGPT Among Employees After Sensitive Code Leak

Fireside Chat & Panel 3

https://www.csoonline.com/article/656596/how-much-cybersecurity-expertise-does-a-board-need.html

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/06/25/artificial-intelligence-and-ethics-an-emerging-area-of-board-oversight-responsibility/

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-020-04717-9

https://www.asisonline.org/security-management-magazine/articles/2023/01/where-does-dei-stand-in-the-security-industry/

https://tcblog.protiviti.com/2023/03/16/achieving-diversitys-benefits-in-cybersecurity/