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What Keeps Your Board Up at Night? Sylvia Kerrigan, Exec. VP, General Counsel & Secretary – Marathon Oil Sean Gorman, Partner – Bracewell & Giuliani.

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1 What Keeps Your Board Up at Night? Sylvia Kerrigan, Exec. VP, General Counsel & Secretary – Marathon Oil Sean Gorman, Partner – Bracewell & Giuliani

2 Page  2 Overview Cybersecurity International Compliance Black Swan Events Advising the Board 1 2 3 4

3 Cybersecurity Page  3 20102011201220132014 9.4 million 22.7 million 24.9 million 28.9 million 42.8 million Total number of security incidents detected by respondents * The equivalent of over 117,000 incoming attacks per day, every day in 2014 * PWC 2015 Global State of Information Security® Survey

4 Page  4 Cybersecurity  Advanced Persistent Threat (APT): Often state-funded; methodical infilitration over months/years  Ex.: Stuxnet; U.S. Office of Personnel Management  Organized crime: Targeting corporate data for financial gain  Ex.: Target; Fin4  “Hacktivism”: Advancing political/policy views  Ex. Anonymous  Insider threats: Employees or contractors using access to possess or release corporate information for personal, competitive, or financial reasons

5 Page  5 International Compliance Overview  Heightened focus on international compliance enforcement actions and investigations  Fines and penalties can reach into the hundreds of millions of dollars  Enforcement actions can result in the potential indictment of a corporate entity  Increasing number of ways that investigations are triggered  Enhanced focus on individual culpability

6 Page  6 Black Swan Events  A “Black Swan” event is one that is highly improbable in terms of frequency, but with game-changing, even catastrophic, consequences when it does occur  Examples: -Macondo -Hurricane Katrina  How does an entity plan for something that it cannot predict? -Need to address response and solution

7 Page  7 Advising the Board  Regardless of the issue or event, Board duties remain the same  Directors must also consider the potential risk of Board and individual liability for corporate events  Lay the foundation for application of the business judgment rule  Understand the scope of existing D&O insurance coverage

8 Page  8 Advising the Board  Are you prepared to advise the Board on these questions? -Does the company have a process or standard to articulate key risk events? -What are the company‘s top risks? -How severe is the impact of these risks? -How likely are the risks to occur? -What are the potential costs of not addressing these risks? -How often do you assess these risks? -Who owns and who is accountable for these risks? -Does the company have the right personnel and resources to address these risks? -How effectively does the company manage these risks? -What does the company spend to prevent and mitigate these risks? -How would the company respond to an event involving these risks?

9 Page  9 Advising the Board  Timing -As events arise or on a scheduled basis?  Audience -Specific committee, such as the Audit or Emergency Response Committee, or the entire Board?  Form of presentation -Continued, ongoing updates on the same key risks or focus on different risk for each presentation? -Oral report, ppt. or a more graphical representation? -Focus on big picture or view from the trenches? -Inclusion of industry/external benchmarking or focus on internal detail for context?  It is not necessarily either/or; customize to fit the needs of your Board and company

10 Page  10 Advising the Board

11 Page  11 Advising the Board Protect Identify  Tone from the top  Internal culture  Documented program  Written policies and procedures  Training and education  Third party contract management  Insurance  Risk assessment  Internal and external audits  Notification standard  Ethics Helpline  Engagement with internal and external experts  Tabletop simulations  Industry threat intelligence

12 Page  12 Advising the Board Mitigate  Emergency response committee  Response and crisis management  External communications  Engagement of the appropriate expertise  Notify external parties where applicable Respond  Regulatory investigations  Claims and litigation  Insurance recovery  Look back

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