Cyber security

The growing dependence on IT systems in society also increases our vulnerability if these systems fail. The continuous growth of incidents related to systems and infrastructures in the past years cannot have escaped anyone’s notice. Whether these incidents are caused by malicious third parties or by simple human errors, the consequences usually have a material impact on your business continuity. For both great and small, an incident response plan is no longer a luxury you can go without.

Kennedy Van der Laan has been a frontrunner in this field since the emergence of data protection and cyber security. This has led to the establishment of a special response team for cyber incidents, with decades of experience and worldwide recognition. Our lawyers know what is at stake, understand the underlying technology and first and foremost: get the bigger picture.

Our Incident Response Team is available to you 24/7 and can help you with the following:

• Coordination & Management: we deal with the incident from start to finish, in cooperation with several forensic experts, CERTs, internal or external CISO and DPO, and insurance companies.
• Legal & Compliance: we advise and support in compliance with statutory (notification) obligations and contractual agreements, and identify liability risks early, with the options of mitigating them as much as possible.
• Communication & Media: we think and write along with you in communications to parties involved, such as customers and employees, in contacts with the press, and in communication with the authorities, such as the Dutch Data Protection Authority and the police.
• Liability & Litigation: we handle civil-law liability claims and conduct administrative-law proceedings against supervisory authorities. We also use legal remedies, such as levying attachment, to limit the damage caused by the incident.
• Assessment & Report: we make recommendations to ensure better compliance with statutory and contractual obligations in the future, to improve the contractual position, and we provide tools like (template) documents, forms, and registers.

If an incident has occurred, please contact us through incident.response@kvdl.com or through +31 85 401 36 33. You may also contact one of the experts from our Incident Response Team directly.

Please refer to our brochure for more information about our Incident Response Team.

Would you like to make a first estimate of the legal obligations in the case of an incident? Please go through our data breach tool.

In addition to the direct support when an incident has already happened, our Privacy Team is also happy to help you prevent and prepare for incidents as much as possible.