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Breaking down the Cyber Security Act 2024 and amendments to the SOCI Act

By: Kieran Doyle, Nicole Gabryk and Rakhee Dullabh At a glance The new Act strengthens safeguards for individuals, businesses, and critical infrastructure, enhancing Australia’s resilience to cyber threats. Businesses must report significant cyber incidents, including ransomware demands and payments, ensuring improved visibility and coordinated responses. The act updates standards for IoT devices, expands critical infrastructure […]

By : Joshua Weiler Nov 26, 2024 Comments Off

Thought Leadership, Video

Trend Watch: What’s next? – data breach class actions

Following the Optus and Medibank data breaches in 2021-2022, the increase in litigation has triggered a range of new considerations and developments in the space. In our latest Trend Watch video on data breaches, Cyber, Privacy + Technology partner Nicole Gabryk and Commercial Litigation special counsel Gavin Davies discuss the increasing activity of regulators, litigants […]

By : Joshua Weiler Oct 31, 2024 Comments Off

Thought Leadership, Video

Trend Watch: Privilege during investigations – data breach class actions

With litigation escalating across data breaches and privacy class actions, there are new questions around legal privilege when obtaining forensic reports. As part of our Trend Watch video series, Cyber, Privacy + Technology partner Nicole Gabryk and Commercial Litigation special counsel Gavin Davies discuss privilege claims arising from the Optus and Medibank data breaches in 2021-2022, […]

By : Joshua Weiler Oct 29, 2024 Comments Off

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Parental leave – an outline of entitlements and obligations

By: Sian Gilbert, Grace Gunn, Dexter Cabal and Ellie Jongma At a glance Employees entitled to parental leave under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (FW Act) may take up to 110 days of their 12-month unpaid leave entitlement in a flexible manner in the 24 months following the birth (or adoption) of their child […]

By : Joshua Weiler Oct 15, 2024 Comments Off

Thought Leadership, Video

Trend Watch: Current state of play – data breach class actions

The 2021–2022 Optus and Medibank cyber incidents have sparked an uptick of litigation in the data breach and privacy class action space, raising important questions for the trajectory of similar matters going forward. In the second instalment of our Trend Watch video series, Cyber, Privacy + Technology partner Nicole Gabryk and Commercial Litigation special counsel […]

By : Joshua Weiler Oct 14, 2024 Comments Off

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Current landscape of cyber sanctions in Australia – October 2024

By: Kieran Doyle, Nicole Gabryk, Rakhee Dullabh and Rebecca Wilson At a glance In early October 2024, Australia imposed sanctions on three Russian nationals linked to the Evil Corp cybercrime group. The Cyber Security Bill 2024 aims to strengthen Australia’s defences against ransomware and cyber threats. Businesses must seek legal guidance to ensure compliance with […]

By : Joshua Weiler Oct 9, 2024 Comments Off

Thought Leadership

Cyber, Privacy + Technology Report – Issue 9, September 2024

By: Kieran Doyle, Nicole Gabryk, Stephen Morrissey, Joseph Fitzgerald, Amanda Beattie, Nick Martin, Rakhee Dullabh, Christy Mellifont, Rebecca Wilson, Jonathon Ferraro and Natasha Chand We are delighted to share Issue 9 of our Cyber, Privacy + Technology Report – our quarterly wrap-up of relevant news for insurers, brokers and their customers doing business in Australia […]

By : joanna li Sep 25, 2024 Comments Off

Thought Leadership

Cyber, Tech and Data Risk Report – Issue 8, June 2024

By: Kieran Doyle, Nicole Gabryk, Stephen Morrissey, Joseph Fitzgerald, Amanda Beattie, Nick Martin and Gavin Davies We are delighted to share Issue 8 of our Cyber, Tech and Data Risk Report – our wrap-up of relevant news for the last quarter of FY24 for insurers, brokers and their customers doing business in Australia and New […]

By : Anja Vogel Jul 1, 2024 Comments Off

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Mind the (third-party) gap this Privacy Awareness Week 2024

By: Kieran Doyle, Nicole Gabryk, Nick Martin and Olivija Radinovic For this year’s Privacy Awareness Week, the OAIC is calling on entities to ‘power up’ privacy – to take control and to step things up. Privacy regulators from across Australia issued a joint statement for Privacy Awareness Week which set out more details for this […]

By : Anja Vogel May 10, 2024 Comments Off

Thought Leadership

Cyber, Tech and Data Risk Report – Issue 7, March 2024

By: Kieran Doyle, Nicole Gabryk, Stephen Morrissey and Nick Martin We are delighted to share Issue 7 of our Cyber, Tech and Data Risk Report – our wrap-up of relevant news for the first quarter of 2024 for insurers, brokers and their customers doing business in Australia and New Zealand in the cyber, tech and […]

By : Anja Vogel Mar 27, 2024 Comments Off

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