Data Privacy, Security and Governance
Who We Help
We help clients with both proactive and reactive services to prepare for, respond to, and defend the litigation, regulatory, and reputational fallout of cyber incidents, privacy events, and technology-driven compliance obligations.
What We Do
We deliver information security, governance and privacy related assessments, support cyber incident response across the full lifecycle, design and test Regulation S-P compliance programs, assess off-channel communications policy and forensic support, provide security-related testing, governance advisory and vetting of AI platforms and frameworks. The Bates team will also provide expert testimony in disputes arising from data security and privacy events, as needed.
When Do Clients Call Bates Group
Clients call when assessments and testing of information security programs or governance frameworks is needed, when an incident is underway, when Regulation S-P or state breach-notification obligations are approaching, or when a matter involving business email compromise, account takeover, or standard-of-care expectations require defensible expert analysis.
How Clients Use Bates Group
Bates Group supports clients by helping to develop and stress-test information security and incident response programs, map customer data and vendor exposure under Regulation S-P, providing governance advisory and remediation as part of M&A due diligence, reviewing and guiding off-channel communications supervisory frameworks, establishing AI governance grounded in NIST, OWASP & regulatory guidance, and providing expert testimony when events reach litigation or enforcement.
Our Approach
Our approach treats readiness and response as one continuous discipline, with documented policy tied to actual practice, tabletop tested playbooks, and coordinated legal, compliance, IT, and security stakeholders, so that documented controls hold up when the event is real and the regulator is asking.
Regulation S-P's expanded requirements, ongoing off channel communications enforcement, and rapid AI adoption have collectively raised the bar for what firms must document and demonstrate. Bates Group helps clients translate those obligations into practical, right sized programs that operate under pressure and defends those programs when the matter moves into investigation, enforcement, or courtroom contexts.
