Cyber response

Our specialist cyber response team are here to help you proactively both before and after a cyber breach.

We know the terrible fallout which an organisation can suffer from a cyber breach, including:

The risks of multi-million-pound fines under the UK GDPR
Claims from affected individuals
Claims from third party organisations
Reputational damage
Business disruption

Let our specialist cyber response team help you proactively before a cyber breach occurs, by drawing upon our UK GDPR and technology law specialist knowledge, including our expertise from helping some of the largest global organisations. As part of this service, we'll help mitigate against legal risk exposure associated with cyber breaches.

If a cyber breach occurs, our cyber response team can also help assess and assist with any UK GDPR regulatory notifications to the ICO and to affected individuals. We can also help with taking legal action and defending against claims.

We can also put you in touch with specialist technical and forensic teams to mitigate against technical cyber risks.

Our experience

Cyber requires:

An understanding of the underlying technology issues, where your CIO or in-house IT team can speak the "same language" with us to quickly convey the cyber breach issues – no problem there, as the head of our cyber response offering is also a qualified software engineer (with a First Class BSc (Hons) degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering).
An in-depth understanding of the UK GDPR, so that your DPO or in-house privacy leads can convey information to allow us to make a quick assessment, especially considering the critical 72 hour time period for notifiable regulatory breaches – again, you are in safe hands with us, as the head of our cyber response offering is a specialist UK GDPR lawyer with the internationally recognised specialist data protection qualifications (CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT, FIP).
A specialist and holistic approach, which blends practical expertise across a range of legal disciplines in the context of cyber - our cyber response team is well positioned to offer this, including:
- UK GDPR compliance (including ICO and data subject notification assessments)
- Litigation
- Employment law
- Stock Exchange regulatory notifications
- Charity Commission and industry regulatory notifications
- Insurance law

Examples of our expertise, include:

Assisted a nuclear company in respect of a cyber breach, including liaising with the FBI and UK law enforcement
Successfully completed ICO notifications in respect of cyber breaches, without subsequent fines or enforcement action being taken against our clients
Implemented legal mitigation measures for a global crypto-exchange to guard against the risks of a cyber breach
Advised a global automotive company with pro-active legal measures to guard against cyber liability risks in respect of its worldwide connected car programme
Advised clients in the charity and not-for-profit sectors in respect of phishing attacks - including ICO, Charity Commission and data subject notifications

Did you know?

Specialists

Our cyber response team consists of specialists who understand, and can advise on, all of the legal disciplines which play a role in cyber.

Responsive

Our cyber response team is there to help you both before and after a cyber incident, with pro-active and responsive cyber services.

£8.7million or 2% of your global turnover

We can help you with the critical 72 hour time limit regulatory notifications, to guard against such fines.

What do others say?

“Very commercial and pragmatic, very knowledgeable in the fields of data privacy generally.”

Legal 500

“Mills & Reeve are always on hand to offer advice and guidance. Their approach is to give practical advice in a clear and non-jargony way.”

Chambers and Partners UK

Our clients

We advise the full range of clients from innovative start-ups to the largest organisations globally. We also operate across all industry sectors.

Our lawyers

Our cyber response service is headed by our UK market leading technology lawyer, Jagvinder Singh Kang (CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT, FIP) who is also a qualified software engineer. Jagvinder and our national team of specialist cyber lawyers have extensive experience in helping the full range of organisations on cyber matters.