Cybersecurity and Deterrence
How to Fight Foreign Hackers With Civil Litigation
Major tech companies have begun to employ Microsoft’s strategy of suing cybercriminals who operate major botnets or engage in massive phishing schemes.
Kim Peretti is a partner and co-leader of Alston & Bird's Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team and National Security & Digital Crimes Team. Kim is the former director of PwC’s cyber forensic services group and a former senior litigator for the DOJ’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. Kim’s background as an information security professional and lawyer for more than 22 years enhances her practice in managing technical cyber investigations and advising boards and senior executives in matters of cybersecurity and cyber risk. Kim is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and serves on Cyber Investigative Advisory Board for the U.S. Secret Service.
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Major tech companies have begun to employ Microsoft’s strategy of suing cybercriminals who operate major botnets or engage in massive phishing schemes.
This post is part of a series written by participants of a conference at Georgia Tech in Surveillance, Privacy, and Data Across Borders: Trans-Atlantic Perspectives.