Cybersecurity, Cyber Insurance and the Law

Along with the heightened awareness of cybersecurity in recent times, it is essential that organisations develop a comprehensive and appropriate cyber insurance policy. DIFC Academy in partnership with LexisNexis Middle East and CMS will host a webinar on cyber insurance.

Our experts will look at these polices in detail and discuss how they work should something go wrong. Topics to be covered include:

• Why cyber insurance is so important in today's world
• The cyber insurance market
• What cyber insurance covers
• The underwriting/buying process
• Detailed coverage points

Speaker:

KARIM FAWAZ

Partner | CMS

Karim specialises in corporate commercial work with focus on Technology and Corporate Finance. This includes regulatory, investments and digital transformation projects for public and private sectors. Karim has worked as legal director at Clyde & Co in Dubai and Riyadh where he drove the CorpTech practice which focuses on corporate and commercial work relating to suppliers and clients in the ICT sector. Karim had formerly worked as Corporate Counsel at Cisco Systems and Cisco Capital, where he led the Enterprise and Public Sector legal team in MEA and advised on several major projects in technology and technology finance. Karim had also worked as an associate at Levant Law Practice in Riyadh where he provided various legal services for several leading insurance companies and financial services authorised persons in Saudi Arabia.