Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy

The lawyers on Alston & Bird’s Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team are technology thought leaders who provide practical answers to our clients’ toughest global privacy, data protection, and cybersecurity questions. We know that information is the lifeblood of your company, and so we strive to understand your company’s inner workings, its technology, its business processes and data use, and the value they provide to your business and customers. 

Our team’s lead lawyers are nationally renowned privacy and cybersecurity professionals with significant technology, information security, and forensics capabilities and federal and international cybercrime prosecutorial experience. With an emphasis on teamwork, we work together to advise on global compliance and governance programs, emerging technologies, security incident response, cyber investigations, cyber risk management, complex commercial transactions, cross-border data transfers, regulatory enforcement, and class action defense with a holistic approach to legal and operational risk. Our multidisciplinary team has decades of experience advising and assisting at every step of your data’s life cycle. 

• We Are Cyber Market Leaders: Our global team has decades of experience leading prominent cyber incidents and forensic investigations for clients operating in a wide array of industries, both regulated and unregulated. The scope of our integrated incident response practice, which addresses an incident from preliminary counseling to digital forensics investigation, through state, federal, and international notifications, to regulatory investigation and the often-attendant litigation, is well known in the marketplace. As lead counsel in some of the largest recent health care breaches and ransomware attacks involving nation-state threat actors, we bring with us strong, long-developed, and extensive third-party relationships with leading forensic and public relations firms. Alston & Bird also provides leadership in promoting diversity and inclusion through the Women in Cyber™ network and other initiatives. 
• We Are Privacy Thought Leaders Representing Global Brands: We provide strategic advice to startups, Fortune 100 companies, insurers, and some of the largest global brands on implementing global data protection compliance programs, analyzing worldwide data privacy laws and regulations, structuring international data flows, and cooperating and negotiating with data protection authorities on behalf of our clients. 
• We Are International: We have a strong global privacy and cybersecurity practice with numerous offices in the United States, as well as in Brussels, Beijing, and London. We maintain our Global Privacy and Security Network, founded in 2011, which formalizes our relationships with leading privacy and data protection counsel in jurisdictions around the world, providing clients with access to true specialists who advise them on key legal developments in practically every country, bringing to bear unsurpassed expertise on local custom and practice, as well as the benefit of long-standing local relationships.
• We Are Experienced Litigators: Managing risk, reducing litigation, and dealing with regulators and enforcement authorities, including the FTC, FCC, SEC, CFPB, HHS/OCR, and state attorneys general, calls for a team with aggressive trial lawyers. Our nationally recognized Privacy & Cybersecurity Litigation team has long-standing experience in class action defense involving a broad array of privacy and data security matters in many industries, in some of the largest privacy and cybersecurity class actions.

VIDEO    |    JUNE 22, 2018

David Carpenter | The TCPA: What Your Business Needs to Know

David Carpenter, Litigation partner, provides an overview of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and what risks this statute poses to companies.

VIDEO    |    JUNE 22, 2018

Kim Peretti | In-House Counsel's Role in Preparing for Cybersecurity Resilience

Kim Peretti, co-chair of the Cybersecurity Preparedness & Response Team, discusses how cyber threats have evolved and today’s key cybersecurity vulnerabilities.