Octillo
Sameer Ponkshe is an experienced attorney specializing in incident response and data privacy compliance, currently serving at Octillo since November 2022. With a robust legal background, Sameer previously worked as Senior Counsel and Senior Associate at Wood, Smith, Henning & Berman LLP from February 2020 to October 2022, and as a Senior Analyst at AIG from February 2018 to February 2020. Earlier roles include Associate Attorney positions at Milber Makris Plousadis Seiden and DelBello Donnellan Weingarten Wise & Wiederkehr, LLP, as well as legal internships with the City of Peekskill and Village of Ossining. Sameer holds a Juris Doctor from Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, specializing in Environmental and Land Use Law, and a Bachelor's Degree in Economics and Political Science from Virginia Tech.
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Octillo is one of the few law firms in the country focused exclusively on data security and privacy, incident response, and litigation. Our clients range from start-ups to global brands across a wide range of industries. We partner with executive leadership and cross-disciplinary teams to build privacy and security compliance programs, respond to cybersecurity incidents, conduct trainings, negotiate technology contracts, prepare for regulatory investigations, Our team includes lawyers who are also technologists, tech business owners, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioners, web designers, tech professionals, CISAs, CISOs, and former regulators, who have responded to numerous headline-making, national and international data breaches, cybersecurity incidents, and ransomware attacks – providing actionable counsel and legal defense. We help companies develop and adapt to new technologies and ensure the security of their technological infrastructure, databases, and information assets under state, federal and international laws. Our attorneys devise privacy and information technology policies for client businesses, work with companies to ensure compliance with privacy regulations like the GDPR, CCPA and other state privacy laws, biometric privacy laws, HIPAA/HITECH, GLBA and FCRA/FACTA, NY SHIELD Act, DFS Cyber Reg, train and conduct tabletop exercises to simulate client response to real life security incidents. The content shared is for general informational purposes only and should not be construed as legal advice. The information contained herein does not create, nor does receipt of the same constitute, an attorney-client relationship between Octillo Law and you. Therefore, please do not provide us with confidential information via LinkedIn as we may not be able to treat such information as privileged, confidential, or protected. *Attorney Advertising - Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.