Mullen Coughlin, Cybersecurity & Data Privacy

Mullen Coughlin is proud to support Zywave’s 2023 Cyber Risk Insights Conference (CRIC), being held in New York, NY on September 27, 2023, with presenters from Mullen Coughlin speaking on two panels – “State of the Market: The Loss Landscape” and “Cyber Litigation to Watch.” Additionally, Mullen Coughlin Co-Founder & Managing Member Jennifer A. Coughlin sits on CRIC’s Advisory Board, assisting with the planning and execution of the Conference.

On the “State of the Market: The Loss Landscape” panel, Mullen Coughlin Partner Carolyn Purwin Ryan is joined by threat and risk mitigation professionals Adam Cottini of Crowdstrike, Michael Rogers of MOXFIVE and Josiah Dykstra of the National Security Agency (NSA) for a dynamic discussion on the current cyber threats that pose the greatest risk to organizations and their cyber insurance partners. Carolyn relies on Mullen Coughlin’s collective experience in handling over 2,000 data privacy and security incidents so far in 2023 in providing attendees real-life examples of incident investigations and related cyber claims.

Partner and Chair of Mullen Coughlin’s Privacy Litigation practice, Claudia D. McCarron, moderates the “Cyber Litigation to Watch” panel. Relying upon Mullen Coughlin’s 15-member (and growing) Privacy Litigation team’s experience defending hundreds of organizations across all industry sectors against claims and litigation under state and federal consumer protection and privacy laws, Claudia leads the panel as it addresses the rise of cyber and privacy litigation, discusses various issues such as contractual liability and comments on how policy language is being interpreted by courts and notable areas of contention and trends. 

This hallmark event from Zywave brings together cyber insurance professionals, risk managers and other cyber industry leaders from across the country for one full day of networking, learning and discussions on all topics related to data privacy and security, including the cyber insurance market, privacy litigation, incident response, threat intelligence, emerging trends and more. Learn more about CRIC, and register, here.

Mullen Coughlin is a proud supporter of, and participant in, the 2023 NetDiligence Cyber Risk Summit in Beverly Hills, CA from October 16-18, 2023.

Following NetDiligence’s successful Ft. Lauderdale and Philadelphia Summits earlier this year, the west coast Summit once again brings together cyber insurance, legal and technology leaders from across the globe for three (3) days of premier education and networking opportunities related to the hottest topics and trends in cyber insurance, cyber risk and privacy liability. In addition to being a Silver-level sponsor of the Summit, Mullen Coughlin Partner Carolyn Purwin Ryan moderates the “2023 Claims & Losses Update” panel on Tuesday, October 17 at 9:30 am.

The panel, in which Carolyn is joined by valued cyber insurance partners and other incident response professionals, first delves into NetDiligence’s newly-released “2023 Cyber Claims Study” – interjecting ‘tales from the trenches’ related to the response and investigation into data privacy and security incidents, the financial, reputational and operational impact on victim organizations and associated cyber claims. Attendees then hear from the panel on their data privacy and security experience to date, as well as predictions for the rest of 2023 and into 2024.

Other programming at the Summit includes sessions related to cyber resiliency, industry-specific risk analysis, attorney-client privilege, third-party incidents, third-party privacy litigation and more. The 2023 NetDiligence Beverly Hills Cyber Risk Summit begins on October 16 and runs through October 18. Learn more here.

Mullen Coughlin Partner Amanda Harvey participates in the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance’s (CLM) 2023 Construction Conference on September 29, 2023 in Austin, TX.

On the panel “Beyond Hammer and Nails: Cyber Risk in Construction,” Amanda is joined by cyber insurance professionals Brian Dusek of Mosaic Insurance, Donna Hunt of Ironshore Insurance Company and Laura Zaroski McVicker at Arthur J. Gallagher, as well as Howard Franco of Collins + Collins LLP, for a roundtable discussion on how current construction practices address cyber risk, how cyber insurers can place and underwrite policies and how to engage in meaningful risk management with historically “soft” targets such as construction companies. Amanda shares her experience based on the over 2,000 data privacy and security incidents managed by Mullen Coughlin so far in 2023.

CLM’s Construction Conference is the largest gathering of insurance and litigation professionals serving the construction industry. Learn more here.