The Information Systems Security Association (“ISSA”) – Los Angeles Chapter (“ISSA-LA”) recently confirmed that Solutions Law Press publisher and author Cynthia Marcotte Stamer will conduct “Cybersecurity Jedi Skills Training” at the 2025 Annual Security Summit 2025 ISSA-LA is hosting on September 17-18, 2025, at the Annenberg Beach House in Santa Monica, California.

Under constant threat from potentially draconian operational, financial and legal mayhem from cybercriminals’ ransomware and other cyberattacks, organizations, investors, breach victims, health care and other business partners, and federal and state regulators increasingly expect cybersecurity and other IT leaders to defend their organization’s proprietary knowledge, workforce, finance, and other mission critical data and systems cyberthreats from dark web with the skill of Jedi knights. While even the most skilled cyberwarriors can’t render their data and operating systems impenetrable against these attacks, cybersecurity professionals and their organizations should engage in constant training and preparation to protect themselves and their organizations from the fallout that commonly follows from a data or systems breach or failure.

The September 17, 2025, “Cybersecurity Jedi Skills Training” workshop that Ms. Stamer will conduct is designed to help CISOs, Directors of Information Security and other leaders strengthen their cybersecurity prevention and response strategies for enhanced defensibility. Drawing from her decades of experience advising and defending data-reliant organizations and their leaders, her workshop will:

• Arm cybersecurity leaders with knowledge about how data, systems, and technology can either promote or undermine legal defensibility, and share basic principles and strategies for designing and using technology and data to advance legal goals and defensibility.
• Empower cybersecurity defenders with insights into key cybersecurity, privacy, electronic data, and technology-related traps that impact defense and response strategies.
• Highlight how cyber events and violations of computer, securities, antitrust, and other laws can expose organizations and their leaders to criminal, civil, and administrative liability.
• Reveal key evidentiary practices and processes to use during compliance, contracting, audits, investigations, governance, incident management, and response, as well as when dealing with government or other investigations, to promote and strengthen defensibility and mitigate risks.

Ms. Stamer has developed the training from her decades of experience helping highly regulated and other performance and data-sensitive organizations and their leaders use the law, process, technology and other legal, risk management and operational tools to promote defensibility, mitigate risk, enhance operational effectiveness, and manage change and uncertainty. The founding and Managing Member of the Cynthia Marcotte Stamer, P.C. law firm, Ms. Stamer has used her extensive legal and operational knowledge to provide practical, client-centric advice, tools and solutions to help a diverse array of U.S. and multinational business, government, and community organizations, to design, manage and defend their people; compensation and benefits; technology, data privacy and security; regulatory compliance; and other operations-critical risks and performances for more than 35 years.  She is best known for her work with employer and other workforce, health, employee benefits, insurance, data and technology, financial and government organizations, and their technology and other developers and vendors, all of which bear significant data privacy and security obligations.

Longtime Scribe leading the American Bar Association (“ABA”) JCEB Annual Agency Meeting with the HHS Office of Civil Rights; incoming Intellectual Property Section Information Technology Committee  Vice Chair, and a widely published author, speaker and thought leader on cybersecurity and other data and technology use, privacy and protection, Ms. Stamer’s process-oriented work throughout her career continuously has included helping clients use and defend their data and technology practices, investigating and responding to data and technology breaches, events, threats and regulations; and dealing with insurers, federal and state legislators, regulators and investigators on cybersecurity and other data and technology concerns.  Her cutting-edge work, scholarship and thought leadership, advocacy and community service have earned her recognition as a “Top Woman Lawyer;” “Top Rated Lawyer,” and “LEGAL LEADER™” in Health Care Law and Labor and Employment Law; “Best Lawyer” in “Labor and employment,” “Tax: ERISA & Employee Benefits,” “Health Care,” and “Business and Commercial Law.” For additional information about Ms. Stamer or her services, see here or contact Ms. Stamer directly.

Ms. Stamer’s “Cybersecurity Jedi Skills Training” is part of two days of professional training and networking that ISSA-LA is presenting at its Annual Security Summit 2025.  Founded in 1982 by Sandra Lambert and Nancy King, ISSA-LA is the premier catalyst and community resource in Southern California for improving the practice of information security. A 501(c)(3) organization and the founding Chapter of the ISSA®, ISSA-LA provides various training classes and lectures for information Security and IT professionals throughout the year and at the annual Summit. ISSA-LA meets monthly for dinner and regularly collaborates with other IT and Cybersecurity organizations, having joint meetings and social events with the Women’s Society of Cyberjutsu, the Cloud Security Alliance, and the Association of IT Professionals, to name a few.  To register, review the schedule, information about sponsorship, or other details about the Annual Security Summit 2025 or ISSA-LA, see here.

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