Cyber Security: Recent Developments and a Case for Self Defense

Join us for a discussion of potential legal pitfalls that companies may face when they take affirmative steps outside their own networks to prevent or mitigate cyber attacks. Depending on circumstances, defensive countermeasures could be construed as civil and/or criminal violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), and consequently they could pose significant legal risks that in-house counsel and their advisors should evaluate before authorizing conduct that could run afoul of either statute.

This 90-minute webinar will also address recent developments in the cyber security arena, including recent legislative initiatives, the President’s Executive Order and relevant provisions of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act, which would impose new reporting requirements and promote more effective information sharing on cyber threats between industry and the Government.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the current cyber security threat level.
• Identify potential cyber security defensive measures and countermeasures that companies may deploy to prevent or mitigate attacks.
• Become familiar with the intersection between defensive countermeasure and the CFAA and the ECPA, which could restrict the scope of potential responses to cyber threats.
• Review a case for more expansive authority to exercise “self help” in securing corporate networks and critical infrastructure or responding to cyber attacks, including equitable factors that could bear on potential liability and other factors for companies to consider before deploying defensive self help countermeasures.
• And much, much more!