Introduction
Paper Topic Discussion
Current Events
Incident Response, Law Enforcement and the Counsel as Quarterback
Materials
Yahoo’s Warning to GCs: Your Job Description Just Expanded (Big-Time), by David Fontaine and John Reed Stark (March 2017)
Schedule Review (Here’s Where We Are, Here’s Where You Ought to Be)
Paper Topic Discussion, Current Events
Incident Response, Law Enforcement and the Counsel as Quarterback (Continued)
Materials
Yahoo’s Warning to GCs: Your Job Description Just Expanded (Big-Time), by David Fontaine and John Reed Stark (March 2017)
The Equifax and SEC Data Breaches: Takeaways, Reminders & Caveats, by John Reed Stark (September 2017)
Schedule Review (Here’s Where We Are, Here’s Where You Ought to Be)
Paper Topic Discussion, Current Events
Incident Response, Law Enforcement and the Counsel as Quarterback (Continued)
Materials
Here’s What Went Wrong for Equifax in Those First 48 hours, by John Carlin and David Newman (September, 2017)
Ensuring Best Practices in the Investigation of an Incident, by David Fagan, Ashden Fein and David Bender (March, 2016)
Schedule Review (Here’s Where We Are, Here’s Where You Ought to Be)
Paper Topic Discussion, Current Events
Incident Response, Law Enforcement and the Counsel as Quarterback (Continued)
Materials
Ransomware's Dirty Little Secret: Most Victims Pay (John Reed Stark, 2019)
Is Amazon Liable for the Capital One Hack? (John Reed Stark, 2019)
Schedule Review (Here’s Where We Are, Here’s Where You Ought to Be)
Current Events
Incident Response, Law Enforcement and the Counsel as Quarterback (Continued)
Materials
No reading assignment -- just watch any two of the sessions on the September 24th Incident Response Forum Europe and then submit to me via email a one-page report on any issue you found interesting, and state your opinion on that issue.
Schedule Review (Here’s Where We Are, Here’s Where You Ought to Be)
Current Events
Counsel as Quarterback and Data Breach Workflow (Continued)
Cyber Insurance
Financial Regulators, Law Enforcement and Data Breaches
Materials
Think the SEC EDGAR Data Breach Involved Insider Trading? Think Again. By John Reed Stark (D&O Diary, Law 360) (October 2017)
Schedule Review (Here’s Where We Are, Here’s Where You Ought to Be)
Current Events
Data Breaches, Cybersecurity and Boards of Directors
Data Breach Call (Guest: Heather Sussman, Head of Orrick's Global Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation Practice Group)
Materials
How to Move to Remote Work and Comply with U.S. Privacy and Cybersecurity Laws (Heather Sussman, Trust Anchor Blog, 2020)
What the Capital One Hack Means for Boards of Directors by John Reed Stark, August 2019)
Current Events
Complete Any Unfinished Topics
Intake from Digital Forensics Firm (Guest: Bret Padres, CEO, Crypsis)
Current Events
Complete any unfinished topics
Briefing with Insurance Company (Scott Godes, Barnes & Thornburg)
Materials
Who gets Coverage? by Scott Godes (BTLaw Cybersecurity Blog, 2017)
Current Events
Board Briefing (Guest: (David Fontaine, Former CEO, Kroll)
Materials
Cybersecurity: The SEC’s Wake-up Call to Corporate Directors, by John Reed Stark and David Fontaine (March 2018)
SEC/FINRA Regulatory Interphase
(Guests: John Polise, Associate Director, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Cameron Funkhouser, Executive Vice President, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority)
Current Events
Law Enforcement Briefing (Guest: Kimberly Kiefer Peretti, Co-chair of Alston & Bird’s Cybersecurity Preparedness & Response Team and National Security & Digital Crimes Team)
Vendor Briefing (Beckage Cloud Services and Triidelity) (Guest: Jennifer Beckage, Founder, Becckage PLLC)
Papers Due
Discussion of Simulation Presentations
John Reed Stark President of John Reed Consulting LLC. Served for 15 years as an SEC enforcement attorney leading cyber-related projects, investigations and enforcement actions; For 11 years as Founder/Chief of SEC Office of Internet Enforcement; For 15 years as Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law School teaching cyber law; For 10 years as a Guest Instructor at the FBI Academy; For 5+ years as Managing Director (three as head of the Washington, D.C. office) of Stroz, Friedberg, a global digital risk management firm, leading cybersecurity, incident response and digital compliance engagements for corporations. Appointed since 2017 as Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke University Law School teaching law of cybersecurity and data breach response. Author of The Cybersecurity Due Diligence Handbook. 
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