Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

On Wednesday, April 10, Security Incident Management & Response Team Co-Leaders Kim Peretti and Jim Harvey hosted the panel discussion “Nuts, Bolts and Latest Developments in Cyber and Privacy Investigations” in Alston & Bird’s Washington, D.C. office. They were joined by cybersecurity and cybercrime experts from the government and private sector to discuss the latest developments […]

Kim Peretti, co-chair of the firm’s security-incident and management-response team and former senior litigator for the Justice Department’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, appeared on Fox News to discuss prosecuting cyber criminals. To view the video, please click Peretti Appears on Fox News. Written by Security Incident Management & Response Team | Alston & Bird LLP

The United States and the European Union announced in February their intent to launch negotiations this year on a far-reaching trade and investment partnership agreement. Negotiations on the treaty, known as “TTIP”, should commence in June following a Congressional and public consultation period in the United States, and a parallel process in the EU whereby […]

Kim Peretti, co-chair of the firm’s security-incident and management-response team and former senior litigator for the Justice Department’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, was quoted in the Wall Street Journal article, “Law Firms Tout Advantage of Secrecy in Cyberbreach Investigations.” Ms. Peretti said the practice is among the first at a major law firm that […]

In the age of targeted intrusions, sophisticated criminal and nation-state actors are often compromising hundreds of systems within a single company’s environment. However, companies are often only seeing a small portion of the entire incident, as their response to such invasions can be, and often is, too narrowly shaped by state security breach notification requirements, […]