Privacy, Data and Cyber Security: The Current Legal Landscape

Begins at Thu, Apr 28, 2022 12:00 PM
Ends at Thu, Apr 28, 2022 01:00 PM

Companies and consumers alike are under perpetual assault from bad actors as IoT, work from home, and cloud migration – all intended to improve productivity – have expanded the cyber attack surface. The continually evolving privacy legislation and cyber regulation requires companies to adapt and comply with collection, use, retention, and disclosure of personal information, and requires the implementation of internal controls, systems, and policies to better protect information from cyber criminals.

About the Speakers

CHRISTOPHER A. IACONO is a partner in the Philadelphia office of Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP. He practices in the Cyber Security & Privacy; Government Enforcement, Compliance, and White Collar Litigation; Health Care; and Commercial Litigation Practice Groups.

Mr. Iacono focuses his litigation practice on commercial litigation, white collar criminal defense, internal investigations, compliance, health care litigation, and professional licensing litigation.

Mr. Iacono regularly represents government or private institutions and individuals before local, state, and federal grand juries. He has conducted dozens of internal investigations related to fraud and abuse issues, ethics violations, NCAA violations, Title VII violations, and Title IX violations. He also has extensive experience concerning a myriad of legal issues relevant to representing target, subject, and witnesses in grand jury proceedings.

MARTIN T. SHEPHERD is a well-known innovator in cybersecurity and privacy and an accomplished litigator. He brings his clients considerable experience as a litigator, in-house counsel, and as the founder and CEO of Arch Access Control and Arch Canopy, Inc., organizations committed to ending a companies’ exposure of loss due to physical or cyber security breach. He is also former in-house counsel at EQT Corporation in Pittsburgh, PA. Mr. Shepherd leads the firm’s Diversity Initiative and is a member of the Cybersecurity & Privacy Group.

Mr. Shepherd advises major businesses on a wide range of cybersecurity and privacy legal, policy, and investigative matters, including a strategy to identify and address companies’ cybersecurity compliance demands. He conducts assessments and integrates security technology solutions which include a full array of physical and cyber technology.

He has handled cases involving real estate and contract disputes, business torts, civil rights, trademark, and medical malpractice. Mr. Shepherd also has considerable experience as an in-house attorney at a Fortune 500 Company.