Beyond Heads in Beds: A Survey of Data Protection for the Hospitality Industry (Presented by HospitalityLawyer.com®)

Violet Sullivan | Crum & Forster

Violet Sullivan leads Redpoint’s channel development and cyber consulting services divisions as VP of Client Engagement. She works with insurance carriers, trade associations, and individual business clients from around the world providing expert guidance on cybersecurity threat management and response. She represents Redpoint Cyber within the legal, insurance, and risk management channels to develop long-term relationships, recurring revenue, and new business growth. Ms. Sullivan is a licensed attorney in Texas and Pennsylvania and a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US), with her JD and MBA degrees from Baylor University. In addition to her full-time role, Violet serves as a professor of Cybersecurity & Privacy Law for Baylor Law School’s LL.M. Degree in Litigation Management, the first of its kind nationwide.

Her diverse practice experience at both the individual and policy levels has prepared her for developing new tools and approaches to solving what is fast becoming a pervasive and costly challenge in modern industry: How to respond to a cybersecurity incident.

Early in her career, Violet worked on the incident responses for some of the largest and most notable data breaches to date, including: Home Depot, Sony, and Anthem. Her experience in managing scaled breach responses led to her expertise and proficiency in proactively preparing organizations for cyber incidents. In the past 8 years, she has facilitated over 450 cyber incident simulations (tabletops) for public and private sector companies, including many Fortune 100 companies.

As a cybersecurity and privacy attorney, Violet provides consulting services to respond to the needs of various cybersecurity programs. She reviews and develops customized incident response plans to ensure organizations are prepared to respond efficiently and effectively to a data breach. Violet also helps improve internal coordination by facilitating customized tabletop simulations focused on “pressure-testing” an organization’s incident response procedures and protocols. Each of these customer-facing services mentioned has been built and developed for the purpose of creating long-standing relationships that turn to Violet for guidance, referrals, questions, and future projects.

Robert E. Braun | Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP

Robert Braun is a transactional partner in JMBM’s Corporate and Securities groups. He co-chairs the Firm’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Group, and is an expert in technology and emerging industries, privacy, security and hospitality.

As Co-Chair of the JMBM Cybersecurity and Privacy Group, Bob counsels clients on privacy and security, information technology, software development and licensing, and electronic commerce transactions. He regularly handles privacy compliance programs, and compliance with the recently adopted state privacy laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act, and laws adopted in Colorado, Connecticut, Florida Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington. He is the co-author of the Cybersecurity Lawyer Forum blog, lectures frequently on technology issues, and has been quoted by Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, American Lawyer, American Banker, Law360, Los Angeles Business Journal, Daily Journal, and other media on cybersecurity law issues. He is recognized in the Southern California listing of Super Lawyers as a “Top Rated Technology Transactions Attorney.”

Bob is a senior member of JMBM’s Global Hospitality Group, where he specializes in the negotiation of hotel management and franchise agreements, mixed-use developments, acquisition and divestiture of hotels, resorts, restaurants and other hospitality properties, hotel and hospitality workouts and turnarounds, and ongoing operating issues of hospitality properties. Bob is a frequent author and lecturer on hospitality issues.

Stephen Barth | HospitalityLawyer.com®

Stephen Barth, author of Hospitality Law and coauthor of Restaurant Law Basics, is an attorney, the founder of HospitalityLawyer.com, the annual Hospitality Law Conference series, and the Global Travel Risk Summit Series. As a professor at the Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management, University of Houston, he teaches courses in hospitality law and leadership. He is #3 on Global Guru’s Top 30 Hospitality Thought Leaders & Influencers for 2023. In addition to legal and travel risk mitigation insight, Stephen specializes in communicating the importance of Emotional Intelligence in leadership roles; and has provided valuable insight to many companies including The Methodist Hospital System, Wyndham Worldwide, Dine Equity, Business Travel News and Aramark. His fun, fast-paced presentations provide practical information and solutions to enhance your personal and professional life.

I. Personal information: What can you collect, and what can you do with it? | 1:00pm – 1:20pm

II. Regulation: Who regulates data privacy and security, and why does it matter? | 1:20pm – 1:40pm

III. Data protection and security: What is reasonable security, and how do you achieve it? | 1:40pm – 2:00pm

Break | 2:00pm – 2:10pm

IV. Incident response: What happens when things go wrong, and they will | 2:10pm – 2:40pm