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🇧🇷 𝗜𝗡𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗦𝗘 𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗕𝗥𝗔𝗭𝗜𝗟 In this edition of InHouse Brazil, Vinicius Lotufo, Senior Legal Counsel at Natura, analyzes how the corporate legal department has left behind its role as a reactive back-office function to transform into a critical strategic partner in building cybersecurity resilience and digital supply chain governance. The author explains that modern corporate legal teams consider contractual frameworks to be a primary mechanism for making technical security controls enforceable beyond the enterprise’s boundaries. He details that as businesses become increasingly integrated through cloud platforms and interconnected software ecosystems, a growing share of cyber exposure sits within the environments of third-party suppliers. Therefore, legal provisions must look beyond post-incident liability allocation, shifting executive expectations toward defining precise notification timelines, audit parameters, and automated collaboration workflows before a crisis occurs, in an environment where operational delays can cause greater reputational damage than the technical breach itself. Finally, he concludes that while information security specialists manage firewalls and monitor networks, the in-house lawyer protects the business by translating technical standards into measurable commitments and enforceable obligations throughout the vendor relationship. By sitting alongside procurement, privacy, and engineering teams from day one, corporate counsel can directly influence ecosystem resilience and cross-functional governance. He underscores that treating cybersecurity clauses as vital strategic priorities, on par with liability or intellectual property, is the ultimate determinant for securing institutional survival and supporting sustainable digital growth. ➡️ Read the full column here: https://lnkd.in/dciGz5sq #InhouseElite #CybersecurityLaw #SupplyChainRisk #CorporateGovernance #InHouseCounsel #DataPrivacy