Joe Bruemmer serves as the Ohio Digital Assets and Data Management Leader, with a focus on data privacy, cybersecurity, and data breach response. Leveraging his prior experience as a litigator and as assistant general counsel for a leading legal support services provider, he helps clients to identify practical, business-oriented solutions to data security incidents. He has handled a variety of matters involving ransomware, business email compromises, payment card compromises, inadvertent disclosures, and wire fraud issues for clients in the hospitality, restaurant, retail, professional services, financial, and educational sectors. As soon as clients discover a data security incident, he works with them to assess the scope, assemble the necessary internal and external response teams, implement a containment and remediation strategy, conduct an investigation, develop messaging, evaluate regulatory obligations, and respond to consumer and regulatory inquiries in a way that is designed to preserve customer relationships and minimize regulatory and litigation risk.