Fireside Chat: Geopolitical Conflict and the Impact on Multinationals

Alex Stamos is the Chief Trust Officer of the SentinelOne Pinnacle Group. He was a Founding Partner of the Krebs Stamos Group as well as the Founder and Director of the Stanford Internet Observatory. Prior to launching KSG and the SIO, Alex served as the Chief Security Officer of Facebook and as the Chief Information Security Officer at Yahoo. He is a member of the Aspen Institute’s Cyber Security Task Force, the Bay Area CSO Council, and the Council on Foreign Relations. Alex also serves on the advisory board to NATO’s Collective Cybersecurity Center of Excellence in Estonia and to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Advisory Committee.

David Lashway is co-chair of Sidley’s highly ranked global Privacy and Cybersecurity practice and a member of the firm’s top ranked Crisis Management and Strategic Response team. He is acknowledged as one of the leading lawyers for crisis management, cybersecurity, data security incidents, misinformation, trade secret theft, and related investigation matters. He has advised private and public organizations on significant and material cybersecurity incidents across almost every critical infrastructure sector, including financial services, energy, manufacturing, technology, water, defense, municipal government, retail, transportation, and hospitality industries. He has significant experience in addressing election security and misinformation-related issues, and was deeply involved in the investigations into the 2016 and 2020 actions targeting various U.S. political parties. He has served as the lead lawyer advising on the legal response to operationally impactful malware for a number of Fortune 500 entities, and led the incident response, associated investigations and litigations for several companies impacted by the NotPetya malware incident. He routinely leads responses to ransomware-related matters.