Cyberattacks are continuing to get faster, more sophisticated, and more legally consequential. AI is compressing the time between intrusion and exfiltration, ransomware has escalated to triple-extortion tactics, and class action exposure is rising faster than any other litigation category. This session gives GCs a current, cross-functional response framework for the breach that is more likely now than ever to happen on their watch.

• Understand how the AI-accelerated threat environment changes your legal exposure, including False Claims Act liability for cybersecurity failures that have not yet caused a breach, and the class action risk building around AI-assisted attacks on companies with consumer data.

• Build a cross-functional crisis response protocol that aligns legal, IT, communications, and executive leadership before the incident happens, with clear lane assignments for the first 48 hours.

• Gain a privilege-preservation approach for internal cyber investigations and a litigation readiness checklist that holds up whether the next knock comes from plaintiffs' counsel, a regulator, or both simultaneously.