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Luncheon featuring Bryan Cunningham
Thursday, December 5th, 2019
A luncheon event was held on December 5, 2019. Bryan Cunningham spoke at the event and his topic was "How Worried Should I Be? Threats & Law in Cyberspace Over the Next Decade." 1 hour of CLE credit was available.
As the first Executive Director of UCI’s multidisciplinary Cybersecurity Policy & Research Institute, Mr. Cunningham is focused on solution-oriented strategies to address technical, legal and policy challenges to combat cyber threats, protect individual privacy and civil liberties, maintain public safety and economic and national security and empower Americans to take better control of their digital security.
Mr. Cunningham has extensive experience in senior U.S. government intelligence and law enforcement positions. He served as Deputy Legal Adviser to then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. He also served six years in the Clinton Administration as a senior CIA officer and federal prosecutor. He drafted significant portions of the Homeland Security Act and related legislation, helping to shepherd them through Congress. He was a principal contributor to the first National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, worked closely with the 9/11 Commission and provided legal advice to the President, National Security Advisor, National Security Council, and other senior government officials on intelligence, terrorism, cyber security and other related matters.
Mr. Cunningham also is a cybersecurity and privacy compliance lawyer whose law practice has included assisting Fortune 500 and multinational companies to comply with complex, and often conflicting, legal regulations under U.S. federal law, myriad state laws and the numerous specific requirements in the European Union and other overseas jurisdictions. Mr. Cunningham was founding vice-chair of the American Bar Association Cyber Security Privacy Task Force and was awarded the National Intelligence Medal of Achievement for his work on information issues. He has served on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Biodefense Analysis, the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age and the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Cyber Security Task Force. He is also the principal author of legal and ethics chapters in several cybersecurity textbooks.