The Rise of Reasonable Cybersecurity
Total Credits: 1 CLE, 1 Ethics
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- Faculty:
- Samuel A Thumma | Curt Dukes | Kirk Herath
Description
Through tort principles and new state data privacy laws, we are seeing the rise of “reasonable” cybersecurity — the duty of care that a reasonable organization owes its customers. However, no one has effectively defined it. In this panel, experts — technical, legal, and public policy — will discuss key issues and challenges to this problem, examples of progress, and opportunities to improve cybersecurity at scale.
What You'll Learn
- How the evolution of federal cybersecurity law warrants a universally accepted definition of reasonableness
- How state data privacy laws necessitate businesses to implement robust strategies to secure citizens' data
- How five states leading the way define reasonable security
Speakers:
Judge Samuel Thumma, Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One
Curt Dukes, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Security Best Practices, CIS
Kirk Herath, CyberOhio, State of Ohio
Faculty
Samuel A Thumma Related Seminars and Products
Judge
Arizona Court of Appeals - Division One
Judge, Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One, Phoenix, Arizona, since 2012, and Chief Judge 2017-2019. Sam is a member of the National Judicial College Board of Trustees; is a Uniform Law Commissioner, where he serves as Secretary and on the Executive Committee and is an ABA Presidential appointee to the Advisory Council of the ABA Task Force on Law and Artificial Intelligence and the Standing Committee on Lawyer Referral and Information Services. He is a member of the Joint Technology Committee, appointed by the National Center for State Courts, and is an Advisor to the American Law Institute’s RESTATEMENT OF LAW (THIRD) OF TORTS: REMEDIES project. Sam chairs Arizona’s Commission on Access to Justice, having previously chaired various Committees, Commissions and Task Forces for the Arizona Supreme Court and the State Bar of Arizona. In 2023, he received the James A. Walsh Outstanding Jurist Award from the State Bar of Arizona and, in 2021, he was named the Judge of the Year by the Arizona Supreme Court. Sam co-teaches evidence at ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. He has presented at more than 500 law-related programs in more than 20 states and published 18 law review articles, six book chapters and nearly 70 other law-related articles. Sam served as a Judge on the Maricopa County Superior Court for five years; a partner at Perkins Coie Brown & Bain, P.A., Phoenix, and an associate at Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C. He clerked for Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Stanley G. Feldman and Federal Judge David R. Hansen, Northern District of Iowa. Sam received a Master of Laws, Duke University School of Law (2020); J.D., Order of the Coif, University of Iowa College of Law (1988), and B.S., Iowa State University (1984), where he was a Truman Scholar.