Are you prepared to manage the human and legal fallout of a cyber breach? Do you understand the employment risks that arise when your organisation is under digital attack?
Cyber breach incidents create significant business risk, often involving an array of people-related issues.
Join us in Bristol for a dynamic, in-person workshop led by CMS employment and cyber risk specialists. This session will examine the many risks and issues to consider from an employment/people-related perspective in response to a cyber breach. We will look at prevention strategies, providing practical takeaways to help your organisation mitigate the risks associated with a cyber attack.
Specialist lawyers from the employment and cyber risk teams at CMS will share experiences and run through scenarios designed to help you in planning and preparing for a cyber attack, as well as dealing with the fall out. You’ll leave with actionable strategies to help mitigate risk and protect your people.
In this free workshop, you will have the opportunity to:
Explore the employment law implications of a cyber breach.
Learn how to prepare your workforce for digital crises.
Understand key prevention strategies and response protocols.
Participate in a scenario-based exercise to test your readiness.
Network with peers and speak one-on-one with legal experts.
Our speakers
Anna Cope, Partner, CMS
Anna is a partner in the CMS UK employment team working across our Bristol and London offices. Described by clients and peers as “one in a million” and “an absolute star”, she is an “outstanding” lawyer and “trusted advisor” to global corporations and SMEs. Anna’s pragmatic approach, her commercial acumen and with 20 years of experience of advising on the entire lifecycle of the employment relationship (from recruitment to dismissal) she is a “fantastic sounding board” and dedicated to providing an exceptional service working in collaboration with her clients to secure their desired outcome.
She has a particular interest in employee relations and industrial relations issues and advises on complex reorganisation and business transformation projects as well as matters with an international element.
Anna’s wealth of experience in defending and resolving high value employment disputes both in the Employment Tribunal and at appellate level, see her regularly instructed on multifaceted and complex discrimination, whistleblowing, TUPE and other statutory and contractual claims, as well as sensitive in-employment claims. She also advises leading insurers both with their insured to manage and resolve their employment related disputes, and separately on coverage matters where her ability to “cut straight through to provide sound advice” is exceptionally valuable. Anna is a regular speaker and author on topical employment law issues and a member of the Employment Lawyers Association.
Tristan Hall, Partner, CMS
Tristan is a Partner in the insurance and reinsurance group with over 18 years’ experience in the insurance sector. Tristan regularly advises insurers on resolving complex claims and coverage disputes in the UK and worldwide across a range of insurance sectors with a particular focus on directors & officers, financial institutions, tech/cyber and professional indemnity. Tristan advises on the development and drafting of insurance policies and bespoke insurance solutions and also routinely advises professional service firms, directors and their insurers on the resolution of professional negligence claims that are made against them.
Tristan is also a member of CMS’ cybersecurity team and liaises with other offices and member firms of CMS’s international cybersecurity network on the firm's global 24/7/365 cybersecurity incident response service. Tristan routinely advises clients on the management and resolution of cyber breaches and minimising the associated fall-out from follow on claims related to cyber incidents.
Tristan also supports insurers with developing their own cyber products, drafting a range of cyber insurance policies and structuring insurers’ incident response offerings, including associated framework/panel vendor agreements.
Sian Baker, Senior Associate, CMS
Sian is a Senior Associate in the employment team at CMS based in Bristol. She has acted for a broad range of multi-national and national clients, including those in the real estate, technology, media, energy, retail, manufacturing and finance industries.
Sian’s work includes advising clients on day-to-day HR queries, and on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious aspects of employment law, including conducting grievance and disciplinary investigations and litigation experience. She has a particular interest and expertise in acting for clients in relation to TUPE and the employment aspects of corporate and real estate transactions. She also has experience of the employment aspects of restructuring, including collective consultation.
As well as having legal expertise, Sian is a qualified teacher, having stepped sideways in the middle of her legal career for a few years to teach in secondary schools in Gloucestershire, and is a trustee of Vamos Theatre Company.
