In-House Legal’s Guide to GenAI Cyber Risk: Today’s Threats and Practical Next Steps

Generative AI is making cyber fraud faster, cheaper, and more believable—fueling everything from highly targeted phishing and business email compromise to deepfake-enabled social engineering. For in-house legal teams, the risk isn’t theoretical: these attacks can trigger real financial loss, confidentiality breaches, customer harm, and contractual fallout. The organizations that stay ahead are treating GenAI as a core input to cyber-risk assessments, vendor oversight, and incident response planning—with Legal playing an active role alongside Security.

Join us on Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 3:00 PM ET / 12:00 PM PT as Alan M. Winchester, Partner and leader of Harris Beach Murtha’s Cybersecurity Protection and Response practice, walks in-house counsel through the latest GenAI-enabled tactics bad actors are using right now—featuring live-style demonstrations of common “tricks”—and the practical actions Legal can drive to reduce exposure and protect both the business and its clients.

Key takeaways:

• How GenAI changes the threat model—and what to add (or revise) in your cyber-risk assessment assumptions
• Red flags your legal team should recognize in real time (payment fraud, impersonation, “urgent CEO” requests, deepfake escalation)
• Practical policy and process upgrades Legal can help implement (training, escalation paths, approvals, privileged investigations)
• Contract and vendor-risk provisions that better address AI-enabled fraud and compromised third parties
• How to align Legal, Security, Finance, and Procurement on a response playbook that reduces loss and supports defensibility

Who Should Attend: This program is built for in-house legal professionals who touch cybersecurity, privacy, risk, litigation, compliance, or commercial contracting—especially GCs, AGCs, privacy/cyber counsel, product counsel, and legal ops leaders who support incident response, customer security expectations, and third-party/vendor oversight.

There is NO COST to attend this program!

This program is FREE, thanks to our gracious sponsor, Harris Beach! If you can’t make it to the live program, the recording will be available for viewing via our paid CLE library, In-House Connect On-Demand!