Richard Bortnick

Cyber Liability and Insurance Attorney, Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry, LLP

Bortnick litigates and counsels clients on cyber and technology risks, exposures and best practices; directors' and officers' liability; professional liability; insurance coverage; and commercial litigation matters. He also drafts professional liability insurance policies of varying types, including cyber, privacy and technology forms, and is Publisher of the cyber industry blog, Cyberinquirer.com. He serves as a member of the Executive Corporate Board of The Franklin Institute science museum and is Co-Chair of the Computer & Technology Subcommittee of the ABA Section of Litigation, Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee. Bortnick is a regular contributor and columnist for Advisen and was named by Advisen as their Cyber Risk Network 2015 Person of the Year.

Cyber Insurance: A Rising Role in Mitigating Risk for CISOs

Presented by Richard Bortnick • November 26, 2018

As malware, business email compromises, phishing and vishing scams, etc. continue to evolve and proliferate, the same is true with cyber insurance. In the past two years, the cyber insurance market has matured, as growing numbers of insurers, brokers and policyholders have gained a greater understanding of the...

Cyber Insurance: A Rising Role in Managing, Mitigating and Transferring Risk

Presented by Richard Bortnick , Warren Cooney , Greg Markell , Ruby Rai • August 15, 2017

The financial risks to organizations from data breaches include share price hits, class action lawsuits, fines from regulators and reputational damage. As a result, the cyber insurance market is heating up. Larger insurers are already helping companies spot and mitigate weaknesses as part of their coverage and helping...

Cyber Insurance: A Rising Role in Mitigating Risk for CISOs

Presented by Richard Bortnick , Benjamin Dean , Tim Francis , Jay Kramer , David Pollino • June 13, 2017

The financial risks to organizations from data breaches come from a variety of angles, from share price hits to class-action lawsuits to fines from regulators to reputational damage. As such, the insurance industry has jumped full steam into cyber. Larger insurers are already helping companies spot and mitigate...

We've Been Breached: Now What? How to Effectively Work with Law Enforcement and Regulators

Presented by Richard Bortnick , Matthew Braverman , Kim Peretti , Robert Villanueva • April 28, 2017

Too many organizations continue to address breach response from a reactive mode - having a crude disaster-recovery plan in place in case something "does" happen, rather than accepting that something "will" happen and proactively preparing for it. In this session, a panel of legal, technical and law-enforcement experts...

Cyber Insurance - Transfer Your Digital Risk, Prepare and Understand the Costs & Pitfalls

Presented by Richard Bortnick , Tim Burke , Juanita Koilpillai • October 27, 2015

PII breach insurance is becoming commonplace and has some value, but what about damage that goes way beyond the embarrassment, potential fraud and loss of consumer confidence resulting from PII theft? The motivations and objectives for many attacks are much broader than just financial gain, ranging from hacktivism,...