Sotto Speaks Out on Potential for "Armageddon-Type Cyber Event"
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On March 2, 2015, HuffPost Live interviewed four cybersecurity experts in response to a top financial regulator’s warning of an “Armageddon-type cyber event” that could eventually affect the U.S. economy. Lisa Sotto, partner and chair of the Global Privacy and Cybersecurity practice at Hunton & Williams LLP, was featured, describing the threat as legitimate and stressing that hackers are becoming more creative, sophisticated and motivated. She also emphasized that cybersecurity is a high-level governance issue for companies, not an IT matter.

The segment addressed the question of how companies can protect themselves and provided examples of previous attacks and their repercussions.

View HuffPost Live’s segment on Regulator Warns of ‘Cyber 9/11’ Attacks on Banks.

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