To say that the data privacy and cybersecurity regulatory landscape has become a challenging minefield for organizations and lawyers to navigate would be an understatement.

Between a patchwork of state data privacy laws and a rise in enforcement actions from federal agencies, companies' compliance effort can mimic playing a game of Whac-A-Mole—blindfolded.

But speakers at "Decoding the Cyber Regulatory Landscape" session at the Women, Influence & Power in Law 2022 conference in Washington, D.C., on Monday discussed what new developments should be on companies' radars.