Cybersecurity and Data Privacy
Cybersecurity and data privacy issues are constantly evolving and becoming more pronounced in today’s business and market climate. Information governance – now more than ever – can address these issues and play a vital role in the routine operations of businesses of all sizes, from family-owned to Fortune 500 corporations. WSHB recognizes that information governance is one of the central foundations necessary for running and managing a successful business. However, this success comes with new risks that must be carefully managed.
WSHB has a team of skilled attorneys that resolve and respond to our clients’ cybersecurity and data privacy needs. We offer assistance in all matters concerning cyber risk management, data breaches, cyber insurance coverage, and tactful defense and litigation strategy. We monitor recent cyber trends and implement proven and cost effective solutions for our clients’ needs.
Defense and Litigation
WSHB’s cyber team is always prepared and ready to counsel clients through the most complex data risk and security breach matters. We are particularly adept in handling insurance-related matters concerning first-party coverage and claims involving cyber liability. We offer clients a level of advocacy experience commensurate with a seasoned litigation group. Our trial attorneys are sought out for their experience and ability to manage complex matters at the eleventh hour, and we are routinely substituted in as trial counsel on the eve of trial. For this, we are well-positioned and readily available to take on the most pressing and difficult cyber litigation matters.
Risk Management
Our approach to managing clients’ needs is both all-inclusive and proactive. We provide risk assessments that help our clients guard against data breach occurrences, and propose sound and thoughtful data management policies as a first line of defense. Our team is ready to service clients in all business sectors. Through compliance-based cyber management programs, WSHB keeps our clients’ businesses moving forward while guiding them through regulatory obligations. Spotting emerging risks and trends in the cyber climate requires an understanding of our clients’ business models. WSHB has an extensive network of relationships that provide the complete package of risk management services and tools necessary to meet the needs of today’s fast paced market.
Data Breach Response
Should a data breach occur, responding to the incident in a timely and appropriate manner is the first critical step in managing the myriad of potential outcomes that can result. WSHB’s breach coaches are well-trained in overseeing the initial breach response by providing necessary and immediate support to our clients. These services range from notifying regulatory and law enforcement authorities, to coordinating notification of third parties impacted by the data breach, and working with publicists to mitigate reputational harm. Throughout, the main goal of our emergency response cyber breach team is the reduction of our client’s exposure.
Coverage Counsel
WSHB’s expertise in the insurance market is vast. Our attorneys routinely work with carriers on the full spectrum of complex coverage matters. This in turn places us in a strategic position to act as coverage counsel on cyber-related claims. Our team navigates the complexities inherent with coverage analysis, by recommending policy language, analyzing coverage questions, preparing coverage opinion letters, and finally, if need be, litigating claims related to cyber coverage.
Representative Matters
- Coordinated response to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights investigation into HIPAA violations on behalf of medical facility.
- Breach coach for accounting firm compromised with malware, coordinating forensic investigation and notification of affected individuals.
- Represented tech company in litigation involving compromised computer systems.
- Breach coach for large medical laboratory compromised by employee W-2 tax fraud.
- Oversaw cross-border transfers of personal data for insurance companies involved in litigation pursuant to international data privacy regulations.
- Breach coach for medical office loss of patient data and coordination of response to affected individuals.
