About the Topic
Conover Insurance invites you to attend our upcoming morning seminar on Data Privacy issues affecting your organization. During this seminar, the conversation will explore the causes and nature of recent data privacy breaches affecting all organizations with special focus on healthcare and retail entities. This seminar examines rapidly evolving areas of privacy risk, effects of the HITECH Act on covered entities and their associates, potential liabilities, and mandatory expenses following a breach, including: contractual liabilities connected to a credit card breach, the availability and applicability of cyber insurance, and tips to mitigate the risks of a privacy breach. At the end of the seminar, you will know:

• Top five root causes of a data breach
• Applicable state and federal privacy laws for your organization
• Business Associate responsibilities under the HITECH Act
• PCI Data Security Standards and their effect on an organization following a breach
• Who is responsible for notification
• Average costs of expenses incurred to comply with privacy laws post breach
• Pitfalls of signing contracts assuming responsibility for a breach
• What insurance does and does not cover regarding a breach
• Anatomy of a data privacy breach
• Basic action steps to reduce the risk of a breach

About the Speaker
We are pleased to host this fast-paced seminar presented by Mark Smith, a director of the wholesale insurance firm Swett & Crawford. Mark leads Swett & Crawford's Technology and Cyber Risk national practice group and has assisted agents and brokers throughout the country in the placement of technology and cyber risk insurance. Mark has taught dozens of cyber focused continuing education courses, as well as, spoken before various industry groups on cyber liability exposures throughout the Pacific Northwest.

Light breakfast snacks and beverages will be provided.