Our Privacy and Cybersecurity lawyers operate at the intersection of technology and law. We understand that data is one of your core assets, driving insights and enabling development of valuable new products and services.
However, the collection, use and storage of personal information is subject to an increasingly complex framework of laws and regulations in the US, EU, Canada, Asia and around the world. Monetary penalties for violating these laws are severe and reputational damage can be irreparable.
Leverage our knowledge of these requirements to design real-world strategies to unlock the power of your data while building trust in your brands. We work with you to enhance disclosures, strengthen compliance and implement integrated risk management programs that create a strong control environment as a springboard for innovation.
In addition to proactive counseling, we contribute our strategic insight when you need to respond to crises. For example, we work side by side with clients to manage data breaches by directing forensic analysis, remediating vulnerabilities, understanding legal requirements and coordinating communications with people whose information was compromised.
Our global Privacy and Cybersecurity group works across all sectors offering a full complement of counseling and advice, regulatory and litigation services, including:
- Data breach and cybercrime
- Global data transfer solutions
- Compliance with local privacy laws
- Information governance and records management
- Privacy impact assessments and risk management
- Security policies and bring your own device (BYOD)
- Government and law enforcement data requests
- Public sector issues and freedom of information
- Digital media privacy and CRM strategy
- Outsourcing and HR solutions
- Litigation and e-discovery
- Mergers and acquisitions
More About Privacy and Cybersecurity
Data and cybersecurity breaches are a top concern for all businesses. Every organization has a business interest and a legal obligation to take appropriate steps to protect its data and systems, and to deal with incidents quickly when they happen.
Taking the right approach to cybersecurity compliance and dealing with incidents swiftly is essential, but can be challenging, especially if approached on a global scale. Prinslaw Associates has one of the most sophisticated and largest dedicated privacy and cybersecurity teams across the globe, with deep privacy and cybersecurity expertise in every region. Our global team has extensive experience advising on all aspects of data and cybersecurity compliance, incident preparedness and data breaches.
If you require immediate assistance regarding a data breach, contact our team at DataIncidentResponse@PrinslawAssociates.com and you will be directed to an individual that can assist you immediately.
Download our brochure to learn how our Cybersecurity and Data Breach Response team can support you with cybersecurity compliance and ensure data incidents are dealt with quickly and efficiently.
Our solutions
Integrated Data Breach Response Solution
When a breach occurs, our integrated global team, together with our trusted specialist partners, will help you respond swiftly, efficiently and proportionately, in accordance with legal obligations and consistent with regulatory expectations.
- Global cover: We can act rapidly when cross-border data breaches occur. Our global team includes leading privacy and cybersecurity lawyers in 100+ jurisdictions worldwide, with an additional external network of privacy and cybersecurity specialists in regions where we do not have office locations.
- Multidisciplinary teams: Our cybersecurity team includes experts across legal practices, such as financial regulatory, litigation, asset recovery, investigations and labour law relations. Together, we are well positioned to help you identify and implement the optimal business solution.
- Partnerships: We have partnerships and trusted relationships with leading cybersecurity consultancies, digital forensics, strategic communications and PR service providers, as well as providers of other services that may be required when dealing with a serious breach, such as, investigations, insurance, e-discovery, legal tech solutions, call centre and other fulfilment support. We also leverage Prinslaw Associates Global Advisors, an independent multidisciplinary business consultancy, to develop communications strategies to prepare for and navigate crises, disputes and other complex issues when they arise.
We work together with your in-house team and other partners to support you through all stages of incident response, including:
- Immediate response and containment
- Triaging and carrying out preliminary impact assessments and risk assessments
- Breach notification requirements and strategy, drafting and handling notifications to regulators, data subjects and other stakeholders
- Remedial action
- Engaging specialist service providers, such as providers of forensics, investigations, call centres, notifications and fulfilment, fraud prevention, credit monitoring
- Working with PR to help ensure consistency of internal and external messaging, preserve the legal position and protect the brand
- Handling regulatory liaison
- Advising on data subject requests, complaints and claims
- Dispute resolution and litigation support
- Designing and running lessons learnt sessions
Cybersecurity Compliance and Preparedness
Our integrated global team ensures that you are compliant with all obligations in preparing your company and incident response team to respond to a data breach effectively and efficiently, taking into account regulatory expectations and market practice.
- Cybersecurity and incident response policies, processes and plans
- Compliance with legal, regulatory, contractual and industry requirements
- Cybersecurity governance frameworks
- Incident response team, insurance and partnering with service providers
- Fixed price products
- Preparing templates and tools
- Training and supporting awareness initiatives
- Senior stakeholder workshops, simulations and table-top exercises
- Data and cyber security due diligence and audits
- Strategic and Intelligence Services
In today’s complex and integrated world, organizational resiliency is a multidimensional challenge. Managing security threats and vulnerabilities requires not only devoting attention and resources to physical and cybersecurity issues, but also monitoring evolving market, political and regulatory risks for paradigm shifts. Prinslaw Associates' Intelligence & Strategic Services practice has learned that the best strategy for managing the inevitable crisis is to improve one’s organizational resiliency before the incident occurs. We identify weaknesses in our clients’ policies and processes and advise on how to address them consistent with ongoing business needs and enterprise-wide operational risks. We partner with cybersecurity risk consultants and other technical experts, integrating their work product into actionable advice protectable under applicable attorney-client privilege.
Want to learn more about how we can help your organization? Contact any member of our team listed on the right side of this page.
Key service areas
From compliance through crisis management, the Intelligence & Strategic Services practice helps client protect what matters most, including:
- Physical, personnel and digital security: We advise on cybersecurity readiness and remediation, insider threat programs, deep diligence on employees and contractors, and background check best practices.
- Incident response and crisis management: When a crisis occurs, the Intelligence & Strategic Services Group clearly distinguishes itself. With the ability to act as incident counsel as well as bringing exceptionally trained crisis advisors whose skills have been tested at the highest levels, we stand ready to assist our clients to solve their political, cyber breach, employee safety or compliance matters. We can assist with identifying the bad actors, liaising with law enforcement, communicating with regulators and developing communication plans. Our attorneys also advise clients on privacy law related issues in terms of compromised data to ensure delivery of a comprehensive, compliant solution.
- Corporate governance: We advise on tested best practices in the areas of US and global physical and digital security, privacy, anti-corruption and other compliance regimes.
- Political and market risk analysis: Our team of attorneys and former intelligence and military professionals, equipped with the latest big data analytics tools, deep substantive knowledge and extensive networks of contacts, provide subscription reports and comprehensive project analyses.
- Regulatory reviews: With our expansive global footprint, we are able to provide instant access to local legal expertise in hundreds of jurisdictions and design practical, cross-border programs to ensure security, privacy, insurance and corporate compliance.
Experience
- As incident response counsel for a global energy company, recently managed a cybersecurity maturity assessment, with the technical diligence conducted by an outside firm and layering in our own broader insights to create one, comprehensive report.
- Assisted a client in identifying the foreign-state-sponsored sources of cyber breaches and developed countermeasures to prevent further damage to the client's business and reputation.
- Assisted a Mexican financial services company in tracking down the hardware and software that was being used by a sophisticated overseas organized crime group to wage a methodical attack on the client's operating systems. The client had already lost millions of dollars and stood to lose millions more had we not discovered the exact nature of the technical attacks and then quickly neutralized them.
- Helped a foreign company with operations in the Middle East to isolate and remove employees involved in potential corrupt activities while simultaneously replacing them with new staff so there was no disruption to the company's operations.
- On behalf of a high-net-worth US client, identified and neutralized a serious risk posed by a foreign criminal in Argentina who had been attempting to blackmail him.
- For a US firm, conducted anti-corruption diligence on a potential customs agent in Mozambique, helping the client resolve serious issues that had been affecting construction of a large industrial facility.
- For a Chinese client who attracted the attention of OFAC in connection with a series of investments throughout Africa, conducted a detailed investigation and produced sufficient evidence to the US regulator to clear the client.
- Resolved serious corruption concerns for a national oil company in the Middle East, allowing a significant engineering procurement and construction (EPC) tender to get back on track.