Private data protection is a significant focus internationally. We have already seen significant privacy breaches around the world and here in New Zealand. How can business leaders prepare for the inevitable breach of their defences?

In collaboration with the Institute of Directors New Zealand, Dentons Chair and Partner Hayden Wilson talks to Deputy Privacy Commissioner Liz McPherson and Principal Advisory Consultant for Kordia’s specialist cyber security division Aura Information Security, Alastair Miller.

What they will cover:

• What do you feel is the most difficult and complex aspect of responding to a cyber incident or data breach?
• What is the most important aspect of cyber incident response preparedness?
• Can bringing data privacy management to the board level reduce data breaches?
• In your experience, what is the best way to get Board-level engagement?
• Generative AI – what are the potential risks of a privacy or data breach using AI? From your perspectives, what are the key things boards should be thinking about in terms of working with AI.
• Across the Tasman, the Australian Government has made comments describing cyber breaches as being more than individual company events, that they have national security implications and implying that the Government may take a more active role in future breaches. Could the same be said for New Zealand?
• The NZ Government has plans to move CERTNZ under the GCSB, what impact do you think these changes may have?

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About the guests

Alastair Miller
Principal Advisory Consultant for Kordia’s specialist cyber security division Aura Information Security

As Principal Advisory Consultant for Kordia’s specialist cyber security division Aura Information Security, Alastair is responsible for helping a wide range of organisations transform their approach to security. His experience spans more than two decades in information security across both enterprise and government.

Alastair started his career at British Telecom in the United Kingdom.  Since moving to New Zealand, he has held key security roles with Dimension Data, Spark and was most recently Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at NSP.

Alastair is a respected thought leader in the cyber security industry, a finalist in the 2022 iSANZ awards for Best Senior Security Practitioner and is regularly called upon by media and government to provide commentary and advice.

Liz MacPherson
Deputy Privacy Commissioner

Liz joined the Office of the Privacy Commissioner in April 2020 as Assistant Privacy Commissioner, Policy and Operations following an extensive public service career spanning more than 30 years including policy, operations, regulatory, strategy and corporate governance roles.

Liz held several Deputy Chief Executive positions at the Ministry of Economic Development and MBIE before being appointed to the position of Government Statistician in 2013 and later Government Chief Data Steward biometrics.

Liz now holds the title of Deputy Privacy Commissioner and leads the Office’s Compliance and Enforcement and Investigations and Dispute Resolution teams, as well as assisting the Policy team with their work on biometrics.