PLUS Cyber University | Spring Session

Build your cyber knowledge base with this 8-session virtual series!


 Start Date - End Date

March 28, 2023 - March 30, 2023

Registration Deadline

Monday, March 27, 2023



Counts towards the CPLP Designation



Registration Fees

Price Description Amount
Registration $475.00

Available Functions

Tuesday - March 28
10:30 am - 11:30 am
  Privacy and Cybersecurity Factual and Legal Foundations - Part 1
All sessions listed are in Central Time

Ransomware, business email compromise, nation state attacks, and more. Privacy and cybersecurity issues dominate headlines, consume significant resources, prompt considerable legal attention, and affect the global insurance marketplace. This session will explore privacy and cybersecurity concepts and provide an overview of applicable laws and regulations.
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
  Privacy and Cybersecurity Factual and Legal Foundations - Part 2
Ransomware, business email compromise, nation state attacks, and more. Privacy and cybersecurity issues dominate headlines, consume significant resources, prompt considerable legal attention, and affect the global insurance marketplace. This session will explore privacy and cybersecurity concepts and provide an overview of applicable laws and regulations.
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
  Non-Cyber Line of Coverage, Evolution of Cyber Coverage, and Interplay Among Lines
Learn about coverage for privacy and cyber risks under various traditional policies and the evolution of so-called "cyber" coverages, highlighting the types of provisions offered for first- and third-party coverage. We will then consider how a single loss may implicate different lines of coverage.
Wednesday - March 29
10:30 am - 11:30 am
  Debunking Myths about Cyber Insurance
This session will discuss many of the misperceptions about cyber insurance that contribute to what are still relatively low adoption rates in certain industries. We will explore some of these myths as well as counter-arguments to utilize when making the business case for entities adding cyber insurance to their risk management portfolios.
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
  Underwriting, Breach Response, 1st Party Incidents, 3rd Party Claims, and Emerging Coverages
This session will provide a broad overview of the state of the market, basic and evolving coverages, and claims. Learn the background basics of these points as well as emerging issues and products in this evolving marketplace.
Thursday - March 30
10:30 am - 11:30 am
  Risk Management and How Business Leaders Prepare and Respond
Cyber, Privacy and security risks are not just a task for the IT department to tackle. These are enterprise risks and require a task force within an organization. In this session we will hear from a risk manager and a Chief Information Security Officer on how they manage these risks, communicate and plan.
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
  Breach Scenario: Surviving a Cybersecurity Incident
This session will walk through a hypothetical breach scenario and focus on the challenges of identifying a breach, the discovery process, the role of the crisis response team, critical steps, the resolution of the breach, and what type of follow up is necessary.
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
  Cyber Roundtable: Trends, Risks, and Emerging Issues

Our roundtable experts will discuss common cyber risks and emerging exposures that should be on any cyber insurance professional’s radar. This session will also explore the role of the policy holder and insurers as it relates to mitigating cyber risks and the current sate of the cyber insurance market.

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Speakers

NameOrganizationSpeaking At
Adam Taylor Brit Insurance  Cyber Roundtable: Trends, Risks, and Emerging Issues
Amanda Stantzos Corvus Insurance  Debunking Myths about Cyber Insurance
Bill Hardin Charles River Associates  Privacy and Cybersecurity Factual and Legal Foundations - Part 1
Chris Dilenno Mullen Coughlin LLC  Breach Scenario: Surviving a Cybersecurity Incident
Deuayne Crawford AXA XL  Underwriting, Breach Response, 1st Party Incidents, 3rd Party Claims, and Emerging Coverages
Erin Flaherty Guy Carpenter & Company  Cyber Roundtable: Trends, Risks, and Emerging Issues
Evgueni Erchov Arete IR  Breach Scenario: Surviving a Cybersecurity Incident
Gamelah Palagonia   Cyber Roundtable: Trends, Risks, and Emerging Issues
James Mackay Markel International  Risk Management and How Business Leaders Prepare and Respond
Joe Niemczyk (MODERATOR) Markel  Risk Management and How Business Leaders Prepare and Respond
John Black (MODERATOR) Skarzynski Marick & Black LLP  Non-Cyber Line of Coverage, Evolution of Cyber Coverage, and Interplay Among Lines
Kelly Dworniczek Platinum Specialty Underwriters, Platinum Management Liability  Non-Cyber Line of Coverage, Evolution of Cyber Coverage, and Interplay Among Lines
Lou Botticelli Markel Corporation  Risk Management and How Business Leaders Prepare and Respond
Mark Sadler (MODERATOR) Great American Insurance Group  Breach Scenario: Surviving a Cybersecurity Incident
Molly McGinnis Stine (MODERATOR) Locke Lord LLP  Cyber Roundtable: Trends, Risks, and Emerging Issues
Molly McGinnis Stine Locke Lord LLP  Privacy and Cybersecurity Factual and Legal Foundations - Part 2
Shehla Qureshi (MODERATOR) AXA XL  Underwriting, Breach Response, 1st Party Incidents, 3rd Party Claims, and Emerging Coverages

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Bulk Registration Discount | Let PLUS help with the training of your employees and get reduced registration fees for attendees! A 10% overall discount is available for any company that registers three or more people for this event. Email info@plusweb.org for further details before submitting your registrations.
This virtual university series counts towards CPLP designation requirements. Learn more about the designation here.
This virtual university series will take place over Zoom. Within 24 hours of registering, you will receive a confirmation email from Zoom with your unique link for accessing this virtual series. To be sure you receive this email, please be sure mark Professional Liability Underwriting Society (no-reply@zoom.us) as a safe sender in your email as sometimes it can get flagged as spam by some companies' filters.

If you don't receive your access information by March 27th, please contact us.
Session Materials & Recordings | After registering, you will receive access to this event's materials and recordings through the LMS. Session materials (PowerPoints, any additional handouts, etc.) will be uploaded in the LMS the week before the event, and session recordings will be uploaded within 1 week after the event. Note that only the live sessions are eligible for CE/CLE credit.

CE/CLE Credit | PLUS will be applying for Insurance CE credit with a variety of states. View the list of states/provinces where PLUS will be applying (updated as credit is applied for and/or approved). Please note that if a state/province is listed but no credit is listed yet, it means PLUS has filed or plans to file and is waiting on approval.

To be sure your state is included in our filings, please email Member Services at least 30 days prior to the event. Please note that while PLUS will make every effort to honor all requests, we cannot guarantee applications will be accepted and/or approved due to state-specific guidelines and deadlines.

CE Attendance Procedures | PLUS staff will track attendance throughout each session in the virtual series. In order to obtain CE/CLE credit for this event, you must be registered for the event, attend each session in full, document your attendance by answering polls for each session, and complete a request form (a link to the form will be provided after the event). These polls will be provided visually on your screen for about 1 minute throughout the sessions.

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