Cyber Resiliency: Are You Aware of the New EU Laws?
Recorded On: 10/08/2024
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This session will examine the new EU cybersecurity laws hitting multinationals in January 2025, including the Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive, the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), and the European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). These laws involve a multitude of essential sectors including health, food production, financial services, and SaaS services and will involve the widening of how companies will have to deal with data incidents beyond personal data.
Presented in cooperation with Shoosmiths LLP
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Sarah Sederstrom
Associate General Counsel
Fortra
Thought and people leader that is highly collaborative and inclusive that strives for results.

Derede McAlpin
Principal
Mitchell + Minter
Derede McAlpin is a public speaker and principal at Mitchell + Minter, a leading legal communications and consulting firm. With over 20 years of experience in communications and law, she helps clients facing high profile crisis and litigation issues, such as sports and entertainment issues, government investigations, class actions, corporate scandals, and sexual misconduct allegations, among others. She also advises clients on environmental, social justice, and corporate governance (ESG) issues and develops and implements strategic DEI plans and crisis communications plans for global organizations.
As a former member of the press and a quoted authority on legal, gender, and DEI issues, she has a deep understanding of the media landscape and how to craft compelling messages and narratives. She works with trial teams and in-house counsel on civil and criminal litigation, U.S. Supreme Court, civil rights, race and #MeToo issues. She also conducts professional development, DEI, and media training workshops for executives and lawyers. She is passionate about helping her clients advance their communications goals and navigate reputational challenges with confidence and integrity.

Nick Holland
Partner
SHOOSMITHS LLP
Nick is an international data privacy lawyer with over 25 years’ experience, specialising in supporting multinationals on global privacy compliance programs. Formerly an in-house counsel for a US multinational, Nick helps companies on a wide range of global privacy projects and transactions involving BCR’s (EU and UK), cybersecurity incidents, audits, DSAR’s, privacy commercial transactions and is the global DPO for several multinational clients. More specifically Nick has worked on many large-scale data breach incidents across the world for many multinationals and liaises with regulators as part of those projects.
Nick frequently speaks at ACC conferences (most recently on Schrems at the Annual ACC conference in Las Vegas in October 2022), IAPP conferences and webinars as well as hosts various webinars on the Shoosmiths platform.
More specifically:
- Supporting a US recruitment provider on a multi-jurisdictional data incident involving regulatory filings in 15 countries
- Supporting an Indian IT company on a large data security breach in 10 countries
- Supporting several US multinationals on their global privacy programs as global DPO
- Supporting a large US multinational on its BCR application
- Supporting a global Brazilian multinational on its BCR application
- Supporting many companies on smaller scale data incidents involving regulatory filings in a few EMEA countries
- Supporting many US multinationals on the new EU SCC’s and TRA requirements and negotiations with vendors
- Supporting multinationals on OneTrust rollout programs
- Achieved first post GDPR Controller and Processor BCR for RGA, Inc