2016 was a tumultuous year in many respects, and one issue constantly resurfacing was cybersecurity. No longer an incomprehensible issue contemplated by IT professionals, cybersecurity is now the consideration of the consumer, corporation, law firm, and even the federal government.

But is the issue handled with the gravity many argue it deserves? Synthesizing cybersecurity in the present and for the near-future, federal prosecutor and American Homeland Security Advisor Lisa Monaco recently sat down for a discussion with John Carlin, former assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice’s National Security Division and current chair of Morrison & Foerster’s global risk and crisis management team.