Emerging Issues in Federal and State Cybersecurity Law and Regulations

Over the past decade, cybersecurity law and regulation has undergone significant changes intended to reflect the growing threat of nation-state threat actors and ransomware; the increasing reliance on technology, artificial intelligence, and big data; and the recent emphasis on privacy. This course will highlight recent and important developments in cybersecurity, as well as dive into federal and state regulatory developments in area of cybersecurity and its effects on non-regulated and regulated entities in the United States. Specifically, we will examine some of the recent disrupters in the cybersecurity space, how it has informed United States policy and how it may shape current and emerging legislation in this space, how these laws and regulations may impact companies in both regulated and un-regulated environments, and finally practical tips that lawyers should consider when considering cybersecurity law.

This course is co-sponsored with myLawCLE.

Key topics to be discussed:

• Today’s Cybersecurity Environment: Ransomware, Resiliency, Supply Chain, and AI
• The Current Cybersecurity Regulatory and Enforcement environment: Increasing regulation and principal-to-performance-based regulation
• The 2023 U.S. Cybersecurity Strategy: Potential impacts to current and emerging laws and regulations
• Putting Regulatory Expectations to Practice: Practical things for lawyers to consider

Date: March 31, 2023

Closed-captioning available