Experts on Cybersecurity: Eventually This Panel Won’t Be Necessary

When Hunton & Williams partner Lisa Sotto first started studying cybersecurity and privacy law in 1999, someone gave her a small compendium of all the state and federal laws that had been passed on the topic.

On Thursday afternoon, Sotto held up her thumb and index finger to indicate the size of the compendium. “It took me an hour to read it, and then I was the expert,” she said.

Things have changed “dramatically,” according to Sotto: Now there are hundreds of cybersecurity and privacy laws at the federal and state levels, plus a number of laws passed in important foreign jurisdictions ...