During a Wednesday discussion at the 2018 Global Women's Leadership Summit, panelists analyzed the evolving role of the legal department in navigating global transactions.

Leading up to DLA Piper's Global Women's Leadership Summit on October 16 – 17, 2018, Caroline Krass, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, General Insurance, and Deputy General Counsel at AIG, spoke about the importance of innovation in today's business environment, the role of the GC in facilitating innovation while simultaneously managing risk, and her experiences working in government before joining the private sector.

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Cyberattacks continue to increase in scale and severity. Hackers have targeted companies in every industry and of every size, as well as government agencies, state voting systems, news organizations and political parties.

Some experts now say there are two types of companies: those who have been attacked and those who don't know they have been attacked. And as each high-profile breach brings the threat of regulatory scrutiny, damaging publicity and financial losses, protecting their company's information and technology systems is a top priority for in-house counsel.