Katherine Heaton is an attorney at Beazley, one of the largest cyber insurance companies in the world. As a cyber focus group leader, she advises the company of legal risk and trends in cyber issues to help make claims and underwriting decisions. Heaton has been focused on wrongful collection and privacy class actions for years. She is a certified information privacy professional (CIPP/US) and a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). Prior to joining Beazley, Heaton was a class action litigator at a top tier law firm. 

Heaton earned her law degree from the University of Washington School of Law and obtained two master’s degrees in physics and philosophy as well as an undergraduate degree in philosophy, which includes a year abroad at the University of Oxford.