Focusing on the Primary Purpose: Protecting the Attorney–Client Privilege and Work Product Doctrine in Incident Response
Organizations responding to cyber security incidents must manage their incident response efforts while maintaining two critical legal protections: the attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine.
In this guest article published in Cyber Security: A Peer-Reviewed Journal, Troutman Pepper attorneys analyze how the attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine, when properly maintained, prevent information regarding an organization's thoughts and discussions from being disclosed or used in subsequent proceedings.