Benjamin Di Marco

Lead, Willis Towers Watson

Benjamin Di Marco, sought after speaker globally, including AISA Cybercon. Ben has over 14 years of legal and advisory experience specialising in cyber risk, privacy, technology law, financial insurance and dispute resolution. He has acted in over 300 data breaches providing triage, privacy, strategic and claim support to companies. Ben leads Willis Towers Watson's Australia and New Zealand cyber and technology risk team providing insurance, assessment and consulting services to domestic and international clients. Ben focuses on helping clients understand their exposure and developing responsive risk and resilience strategies matching business objectives and support needs. He regularly conducts workshops for client covering topics such as scenario tabletops, executive awareness, data and privacy governance, breach quantification, applied case studies, consensus-based action plans, third party risk, supply chain due diligence and insurance alignment.

Ben is the National Cyber Risk and Governance stream leader for the Australian Society of Computers & Law and their Queensland Chair. He also sits on the Privacy and Data Law Committee for the Queensland Law Society, and is a regular guest lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology.

Ben is a leading privacy and technology risk speaker and has in recent years delivered papers and presentations to bodies including the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner's Asia Pacific Forum, the Association of Corporate Counsel, the AusCERT National Security Conference, the Australian Information Security Association National Conference and to the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia. His recent work includes drafting manuscript cyber insurance wordings, managing complex data breach liability claims, advising on cyber security policy and procedure documents, helping organisations strengthen approaches to data privacy, coordinating complex client insurance placements and delivering risk consulting projects.

Until late 2018 Ben's legal practice involved a broad range of litigated and non-litigated matters. Ben assisted in the drafting of numerous cyber wordings used in the Australian market and designed incident response and privacy frameworks used by Australian and International organisations. From 2016 to 2018 Ben worked with a leading San Francisco legal team on international cyber and technology claims involving data breaches, malware, mandatory notification laws, class actions, regulatory actions and PCI assessments.