Building cross-functional compliance: Simone Herbert-Lowe speaks at Relativity Fest in Sydney and with Lawyers Weekly

Having a policy on paper is not the same as being compliant. Speaking with Lawyers Weekly following her panel session at RelFest Sydney, Law & Cyber founder Simone Herbert-Lowe explains why courts and regulators are now looking past written policies to ask whether organisations actually put them into practice. She points to a recent Federal Court decision in which a company was penalised $5.8 million after its incident response plan was found to exist in name only, and shares practical ways to break down silos between legal, technology and finance teams, including tabletop exercises that surface risks before an incident does. Read the full article at Lawyers Weekly.