*Original Content was created in June 2024
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Chair
Brenda Tronson, Barrister, Level 22 Chambers
ASIC's Cybersecurity Crack Down & the Intersection with the OAIC's Enforcement Action in the Privacy Space
- How ASIC can and will penalise boards for not complying with a range of duties (in particular director's duties)
- The OAIC's expectation that organisations need to learn from the mistakes of previous data breaches
- What the directors' duties and disclosure obligations that ASIC are targeting in relation to data breaches and what enforcement action has taken place to date
- How organisations and boards can be prepared
- What organisations and boards need to do to handle a breach
- The simple ways boards can make changes to their privacy and cyber health to address any issues they may have with the above
Presented by Stephanie Mayhew, Privacy & Technology Lawyer, K&L Gates
Presenters
Brenda Tronson, Barrister, Level 22 Chambers
Brenda Tronson is an Education Focused Senior Lecturer at UNSW Law and Justice and a barrister at Level 22 Chambers. As a barrister, she acts primarily in matters concerning ethics, professional conduct and administrative law, representing a range of clients in a variety of courts and tribunals. Before coming to the Bar in 2008, Brenda worked for Freehills in Sydney and as an associate to Justice Crennan in the High Court. She completed her undergraduate degrees at UNSW, where she won the university medal for Chemistry. She also holds a BCL and MPhil from Oxford University.
Stephanie Mayhew, Privacy & Technology Lawyer, K&L Gates
Stephanie is a lawyer in the corporate practice area focusing on technology, sourcing, and privacy in the Sydney office. Prior to joining K&L Gates, Stephanie worked as an associate at an Australian law firm. This included a secondment to the Department of Home Affairs' Information Law team and Services Australia's Privacy Programmes Branch. Stephanie has also worked as a regulatory officer (legal) at the NSW Information & Privacy Commission and as an assistant review & investigations adviser (legal) at the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC).