Will Daugherty is a member of the firm’s Digital Assets and Data Management group. He has extensive experience counseling clients across a broad range of industries on all aspects of preparing for, and responding to, data security incidents. Will works with clients immediately after discovering a potential security incident to develop an effective strategy to understand what happened, contain and remediate the incident, assess regulatory requirements, and build an effective communication strategy designed to preserve customer relationships and minimize the likelihood and consequences of regulatory investigations and litigation.
Will uses his extensive incident response experience to help companies build comprehensive data security programs and prioritize data security projects, as well as to prepare companies to respond to data security incidents by developing incident response plans and conducting tabletop exercises. Will also advises clients on a wide range of privacy and data security issues, including those arising under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Critical Infrastructure Protection Reliability Standards, FERPA, CISA, PCI-DSS, the FTC Act, state data protection laws, and self-regulatory rules.
Will is a frequent speaker and publisher, as well as a recognized leader the privacy and data security field. He has earned the designation of Certified Information Privacy Professional through the International Association of Privacy Professionals.