About the Speaker
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    Jon Neiditz
    Partner & Cybersecurity Practice Leader, Kilpatrick Townsend

    Jon Neiditz co-leads the Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Governance Practice at knowledge asset protection law firm Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP. Jon has been named a “Cybersecurity Trail Blazer” by the National Law Journal and a Ponemon Fellow, is listed as one of the Best Lawyers in America® both in Information Management Law and in Privacy and Data Security Law, and is listed more questionably by Twitter (of course) as the 82nd most influential person in the world in data security. One of the first lawyers to focus broadly on data governance and knowledge asset protection, Jon helps clients anticipate and obviate information risks, appropriately monetize information, comply with information laws, contain incidents and maxim recoveries and resilience afterwards. He has managed responses to multiple data breaches and other information security incidents every week since 2005 as well as helped design and implement many strategic and compliance initiatives in the areas of privacy, cybersecurity and information management. Jon holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.A., magna cum laude, from Dartmouth College. In good times, Jon blogs at datalaw.net and linkedin.com/in/informationmanagementlaw, and tweet as @jonneiditz.