D&O Guide to Cyber Governance

Jody Westby, CEO, Global Cyber Risk LLC; Member of the ABA Cybersecurity Legal Task Force (Washington, DC). Under Ms. Westby’s leadership, Global Cyber Risk LLC has developed an international reputation as a boutique firm that provides first-tier advisory and technical services to corporations, non-profit organizations, and governments, focusing on privacy, cyber risk assessments, and incident response planning.  Drawing upon a unique combination of more than twenty years of technical, legal, policy, and business experience, Ms. Westby also offers specialized expertise in data flow mapping, IT governance, and global business environments. Ms. Westby is a professional blogger for Forbes and writes a regular column on cybersecurity issues for Leaders Edge magazine.  She serves as Adjunct Professor to Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Computer Science and was formerly Adjunct Distinguished Fellow to Carnegie Mellon CyLab.  She was lead author on Carnegie Mellon’s Governing for Enterprise Security Implementation Guide, which was developed for boards and senior management. She is author of the 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2015 Governance of Cybersecurity survey reports.  Ms. Westby’s work on the governance responsibilities of boards and senior executives for the security of their organizations’ systems and data has been featured by the CISO Executive Network, Bloomberg BNA, and other major media. Prior to founding Global Cyber Risk, Ms. Westby served as senior managing director for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) where she was responsible for information security, privacy, information sharing, and critical infrastructure protection issues across the federal government.  She also was co-lead in launching their outsourcing practice. Before joining PwC, Ms. Westby founded the Work-IT Group LLC and specialized in serving government and private sector clients on legal and regulatory issues associated with information technology and online business. Working with The World Bank and USAID, Ms. Westby has advised government officials and industry in Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania, Armenia, Serbia, Russia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Trinidad, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, South Africa, Mexico, and India on the development of their legal frameworks for e-commerce, security, and privacy. Previously, Ms. Westby was Director of Domestic Policy for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, where she was responsible for a wide range of business policy issues under her purview and supervised U.S. Chamber involvement in 33 industry coalitions. Ms. Westby serves as co-chair of the ABA Privacy & Computer Crime Committee (Section of Science & Technology Law) and the Cybercrime Committee (Section of Criminal Justice) and is serving her third term on the ABA President’s Cybersecurity Task Force.