Robert Metzger to Present Cybersecurity Breach Action Plans at ACI National Forum on FOCI

On September 30, RJO shareholder Robert S. Metzger and Ernie Magnotti, Chief Information and Security Officer at Leonardo DRS, will take attendees through mock cybersecurity breach scenarios at the upcoming American Conference Institute’s (ACI) 7th National Forum on FOCI. Their session is at 9:30 am on the first day of the conference, which will take place from September 30 to October 1 at the National Union Building in Washington, D.C. RJO of counsel Lisa N. Himes is also attending the conference.

During their presentation, “FOCI and Cybersecurity Breach Action Plan: Tailoring Your Incident Response to Meet Mitigation Security Requirements and Breach Policy,” Metzger and Magnotti will examine the play-by-play of how a Foreign Ownership, Control or Influence (FOCI) mitigated company will now need to react to a cybersecurity breach in light of new Department of Defense and Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) safeguards. Topics they will cover include: 

• Determining a company’s obligations under the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM) in the context of a cyber breach
• Ensuring an FOCI company is following its cybersecurity breach policy and implementing checks
• Deciphering which policies kick in during a cyber breach: Systems Security Plan (SSP) for Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and Standard Policies and Procedures (SPP)
• The effect of a breach on a cleared company with classified information
• Determining how the breach affects the whole company and who has responsibility
• Determining what the security representative can and can’t tell the parent
• Reconciling the impact on the annual operating plan

Those wishing to attend the ACI 7th National Forum on FOCI can use the code S10-859-859L25.S to receive a 10% discount on the registration fee.