Brisbane Branch Meeting: Organisational Liability for Information Security in Australia

Starts: Wednesday 26 October 2011, 5:15PM

Finishes: Wednesday 26 October 2011, 7:00PM

Date: Wednesday 26 October 2011

Time: 5:15pm

Venue: BDO, Level 15, HSBC Building, 300 Queen Street, Brisbane

 

Topic: Organisational Liability for Information Security in Australia

In this presentation, the major areas of organisation liability for losses suffered through information security incidents in Australia will be reviewed, including:

Negligence - Liability in negligence for failing to take reasonable care:

  • Is there a duty in regard to information security?
  • What is the duty?
  • Issues with causation and recovery for economic loss

Other torts - Breach of Confidence, Breach of Privacy, Nuisance

Breach of Contract - Liability in contract:

  • Will exclusions of liability be enforceable?
  • Will there be implied terms in regard to reasonable security?

Breach of Privacy (State and Federal) - in particular NPP 4.1:

  • What is "reasonable security"?
  • What are the consequences of breach?

Corporations Act Liability - Corporate and Company Officer Liability

 

As well, some consideration will be given to some likely future developments including:

Data Retention legislation

Privacy Act Amendments including:

  • Statutory right to sue for Breach of Privacy
  • Mandatory Data Breach Notification laws

Impact of adopting EU Cybercrime Convention

 

Speaker: Jodie Siganto, LLM, CISSP

Jodie Siganto is currently a non-executive director of Bridge Point Communications, specialists in data networking and security. She is also a director of Bridge Point Training, an (ISC)2 educational affiliate, focusing in the delivery of IT security and network related training courses around Australia.

In addition to her role with Bridge Point, Jodie is currently completing a PhD at Queensland University of Technology in the area of Information Security Law.

Prior to Bridge Point, Jodie was the Legal Counsel for Dell Financial Services based in Singapore, and prior to that General Counsel - Asia for Unisys.

Jodie is a long standing and very active AISA member. She currently serves as the Brisbane representative for the AISA ISMS Users Group committee, and regularly helps as a mentor for AISA CISSP Study Groups in Brisbane.

 

Many thanks to our sponsor:

AISA thanks BDO for providing the venue for our Brisbane Branch meeting.

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