Cybersecurity & Tech

The Lawfare Podcast: Shoba Pillay and Jennifer Lee on the SEC SolarWinds Enforcement Action

Stephanie Pell, Shoba Pillay, Jennifer Lee, Jen Patja
Tuesday, January 23, 2024, 8:00 AM
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The fallout from the SolarWinds intrusion took a new turn with the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) decision to file a cybersecurity-related enforcement action against the SolarWinds corporation and its Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Timothy G. Brown, on October 30 of last year. To talk about the details and significance of this enforcement action, Lawfare Senior Editor Stephanie Pell sat down with Shoba Pillay, a partner at Jenner & Block and a former federal prosecutor, and Jennifer Lee, also a partner at Jenner & Block and a former Assistant Director in the SEC’s Division of Enforcement. They discussed the cybersecurity and national security implications of the SolarWinds hack, what the SolarWinds enforcement action suggests about the SEC’s expectations for disclosure obligations of companies, and whether the SEC or another agency is best suited to determine whether and how SolarWinds should be held accountable.  They also discussed larger takeaways and messages sent by the SEC’s decision to charge a CISO in this case. 

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Stephanie Pell

Stephanie Pell

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Stephanie Pell is a Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a Senior Editor at Lawfare. Prior to joining Brookings, she was an Associate Professor and Cyber Ethics Fellow at West Point’s Army Cyber Institute, with a joint appointment to the Department of English and Philosophy. Prior to joining West Point’s faculty, Stephanie served as a Majority Counsel to the House Judiciary Committee. She was also a federal prosecutor for over fourteen years, working as a Senior Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General, as a Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General of the National Security Division, and as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida.
Shoba Pillay

Shoba Pillay

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Shoba Pillay is a partner at Jenner & Block and a former federal prosecutor. Her areas of focus include data privacy, cybersecurity, and national security.
Jennifer Lee

Jennifer Lee

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Jennifer Lee is a partner at Jenner & Block and a former Assistant Director in the SEC’s Division of Enforcement. Her areas of focus include business litigation, data prviacy, cybersecurity, and investors and securities litigation.
Jen Patja

Jen Patja

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Jen Patja is the editor and producer of the Lawfare Podcast and Rational Security. She currently serves as the Co-Executive Director of Virginia Civics, a nonprofit organization that empowers the next generation of leaders in Virginia by promoting constitutional literacy, critical thinking, and civic engagement. She is the former Deputy Director of the Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier and has been a freelance editor for over 20 years.

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