Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Practice Management & Business Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Chair
Steve Blinkhorn, Director Legal Affairs, Australian Banking Association
Practice Management & Business Skills
Data Privacy and Cybersecurity
Gain practical strategies for effective privacy compliance and cybersecurity in light of Australia’s evolving laws and international developments.
- Key takeaways for inhouse counsel from the Optus, Medibank, Latitude and HWL Ebsworth data breaches
- How to improve regulatory compliance for privacy, cybersecurity and record-keeping requirements with data minimisation and disposal obligations
- How to effectively comply with evolving cybersecurity regulations and emerging AI and ESG requirements
- Practical strategies for inhouse counsel to get buy in across organisational silos to improve privacy compliance and information security
- Resolving the tension between privacy compliance with AI and technology through integrated information governance
Presented by Susan Bennett, Principal, Sibenco Legal & Advisory, Founder and Director, InfoGovANZ
Presenters
Steve Blinkhorn, Director Legal Affairs, Australian Banking Association
Steve Blinkhorn is the Director of Legal Affairs for the Australian Banking Association, based in Sydney. The ABA is an association of 20 member banks in Australia and works with government, regulators, and other stakeholders to improve public awareness and understanding of the industry’s contribution to the economy and, to ensure Australia’s banking customers continue to benefit from a stable, competitive, and accessible banking industry. Steve is primarily responsible for leading the ABA’s response to the Banking Code of Practice review, in addition to assessing competition, insolvency, and freedom of information law requirements. Steve appeared at the Parliamentary Joint Committee Inquiry on Corporate Insolvency in February 2023 and in October 2022, collaborated with Treasury and Regulators to amend the Telecommunications Act and enable the sharing of data with APRA regulated entities to enhance protections for bank customers following the Optus data breach.
Susan Bennett PhD, MBA, FGIA, CIPP/E, CIPT, Principal, Sibenco Legal & Advisory
Susan is a corporate governance and privacy lawyer who works with Boards, senior executives and cross-functional multi-disciplinary teams on governance and data-driven technology transformation projects to minimise risks, comply with regulatory requirements and deliver on organisational objectives. Recognised for her global thought leadership in information governance, Susan brings deep corporate expertise to enable robust governance to be implemented to safely achieve the benefits derived from new technologies while simultaneously reducing risks through integrated and holistic governance in response to the growing legal and regulatory compliance challenges. These include privacy, cybersecurity, AML and emerging AI and ESG regulations, which require that technology systems be properly integrated and monitored, and that data is accurate and reliable for internal decision-making and external reporting, and that it is adequately protected and disposed of when no longer needed. Susan’s PhD thesis is on Privacy and Data Protection: the interaction of meta-regulation and information governance. Susan’s articles and publications are available on the Sibenco and InfoGovANZ websites – www.sibenco.com and www.infogovanz.com.
