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Cybersecurity Starts with HR: Safeguarding Data, People, and Reputation
Session repeatss at 10:45 am
Date: Friday, September 26, 2025 Beginning at 9:30 AM
Session Duration
1.0

Learning Objective
  • Understand the most common cyber vulnerabilities and how HR can effectively address them
  • Apply actionable steps to integrate cybersecurity into the organizational culture.
  • Understand the current state and federal public policy that regulates employers’ use of digital workplace technologies
  • Session Description
    Organizations in every industry are increasingly concerned about cybersecurity. As cyber threats become increasingly sophisticated, the role of Human Resources (HR) in safeguarding organizational assets and educating employees to combat these threats is more important than ever. To protect your organization, HR Professionals must collaborate with other organizational stakeholders to safeguard employee information and other valuable company data. HR Professionals play a vital role in fostering a security-conscious organizational culture by integrating cybersecurity into onboarding, ensuring compliance with organization security policies and developing tailored training programs.

    This session will explore key strategies to empower HR professionals to take an active role promoting a security-first mindset, ensuring policy compliance and facilitating continuous learning through a system of strategic HR initiatives. The role of HR in enhancing cybersecurity is multifaceted and essential. By fostering a security-conscious culture, integrating cybersecurity into onboarding, developing robust training programs, promoting a security-first mindset, ensuring policy compliance, facilitating continuous learning, and collaborating with IT and leadership, HR can significantly contribute to safeguarding organizational assets. This session will provide valuable insights and practical strategies for HR professionals seeking to empower their organizations in the protect against cyber threats. All of this, and…you can learn how to win the lottery!

    Session Speaker

    Matthew Ritzman

    Honigman LLP

    More About Matthew Ritzman

    Dr. Matthew Ritzman, Ph.D., is an experienced labor and employment attorney. He possesses a broad range of experience in labor and employment law and has been recognized for his expertise at the intersection of employment law and technology in the workplace. He focuses his practice on a broad range of employment and labor matters including ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws, administrative investigations, employment litigation, and emerging issues in workplace technology.

    Matthew brings a wealth of experience handling administrative investigations and employment litigation matters. Prior to joining Honigman, Matthew was an attorney representing the National Labor Relations Board. In that role he led hundreds of unfair labor practice charge investigations and served as lead counsel in numerous successful representations before administrative law judges. Matthew is also skilled in resolving disputes having negotiated a multitude of pre-litigation settlement agreements.

    Before beginning his legal career, Matthew earned both a Master's degree and a Ph.D. in Educational Technology. Apart from his legal practice, Matthew serves as an adjunct professor, teaching business law and technology courses. He has published articles in numerous international journals and delivered presentations at various trainings, seminars and national conferences. He is a frequent writer and lecturer on labor and employment matters, including issues related to technology in the workplace including artificial intelligence (AI), labor relations, handling administrative agency claims and wage and hour litigation.