International Regulation of Cybersecurity – New Paths and New Problems

Date: Friday, November 27, 2020
Time: 5pm – 6pm (Hong Kong Time)
Speaker: Dr. Dennis-Kenji Kipker (Scientific Director, IGMR, University of Bremen; Member, Board of the European Academy for Freedom of Information and Data Protection (EAID), Berlin)

Abstract: Due to the globally increasing number of cyber attacks, legislators in various countries have committed themselves to increasing legal regulation of cyber security. But what exactly are the laws, and where are the limits of legal regulation? In addition to the regulations in the EU, the question of the extent to which national and regional laws can influence the activities of companies and states worldwide will be raised.

About the speaker: Scientific Director of the IGMR at the University of Bremen. Member of the Board of the European Academy for Freedom of Information and Data Protection (EAID) in Berlin. Legal Advisor at VDE e.V. in Frankfurt (Main), CERT@VDE. Managing Director of Certavo GmbH – international compliance management. Personal membership in the German Federal Association for IT Security TeleTrusT. Author of numerous publications on cybersecurity and data protection. Publisher of the Legal Handbook Cybersecurity, published by Beck, Munich, and publisher of the academic journal International Cybersecurity Law Review (ICLR) by Springer. Guest researcher and teaching activities in Tokyo, Moscow, Nice, Dar es Salaam, Porto Alegre, Jerusalem, Riga, Beijing and Los Angeles. Numerous consulting and expert opinion activities, including the Max-Planck-Society, the German Corporation for International Cooperation, the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Federal Ministry of Health, the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Federal Ministry of Defence.

The Powerpoint presentation slides are available here: https://lawtech.law.hku.hk/content/uploads/2020/11/PPT-Dennis-Kenji-Kipkers-presentation.pdf