Clark Hill releases cyber and defense platform
Clark Hill PLC, an international law firm, is launching ASSET360, a cyber and defense practice. This solution combines the firm’s Cybersecurity and Data Privacy, Information Governance, Reputation & Crisis Management, and White Collar Crime & Government Investigations teams to provide a ‘single-team’ comprehensive approach to a company’s most complex and challenging cyber and defense issues worldwide.
These multidisciplinary attorney teams are also embedded with cybersecurity, crisis management, and intelligence professionals providing clients a stronger and interconnected defense against operational threats and complex legal situations.
For cybersecurity issues, ASSET360 brings together as a single team legal and technical resources to address all angles presented by the multi-faceted cybersecurity and data privacy challenges now facing every company in every industry, including insurance, financial services, health care, and any regulated industries dealing with sensitive client/customer data, said John Hern, Clark Hill’s chief executive officer.
The Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Integrated Legal Services component includes experienced lawyers and renowned technical professionals skilled at preparing for and preventing data privacy and cybersecurity breaches. This team also can develop and implement internal cybersecurity and data security programs in compliance with constantly evolving worldwide regulatory requirements.
The focus of the lawyers and technical professionals providing Information Governance services involves improving the efficiency and operational performance of any entity by advising them on the value, risks, and efficient use of data while maintaining legal and regulatory defensibility.
The experience of the Clark Hill team can also minimize the cost and risk of preserving, producing and reviewing electronically stored information during an e-Discovery process by implementing defensible, repeatable processes.
RG360, the Reputation & Crisis Management component delivers well-honed comprehensive public relations and internal communications responses including crisis & reputation management, communications strategy, media relations, social media and influencer outreach.
These communicators work seamlessly, under the direction of counsel, or independently, to develop proactive crises protocols and manage real-time crises to gain control of the internal and external narrative and convey key messages to the various affected constituencies.
The White Collar Defense & Government Investigations component includes seasoned trial lawyers in Clark Hill’s White Collar Crime practice who defend individuals and companies where bet-the-company sanctions, personal freedom, reputations, and livelihoods may be at stake.
The ASSET360 Cyber & Defense Practice offers comprehensive data protection and privacy solutions, proactive cyber and reputational assessments, reactive consulting support, incident response plans, remediation and recovery, vendor and technology contracting, asset recovery services, and internal investigations.
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