Yarbrough Blackstone is a data-focused cyber boutique. We are focused on protecting your information and ideas whether they reside in a server or in an inventor’s head.
We are uniquely able to provide solution-focused counsel to maximize the value of your information while minimizing the risks that information can create.
Our Practice Areas.
Intellectual Property
We work with our clients to develop intellectual property plans to protect, maintain, and maximize their intellectual property. We effectively act as external-internal counsel and examine the possible intellectual property issues from an inside-out perspective.
Privacy
Privacy policies are mostly likely to be evaluated when some incident has occurred, at some indeterminate point in the future. Today’s privacy policies must be created today to meet the requirements of tomorrow.
Data
The advent of Machine Learning and Big Data is upon us, and your data will be most effective differentiator over your competition within the next 5 years. Even if your organization is not a “technology company,” the competitive advantages of machine learning systems will force their adoption. A key to maintaining your company’s competitiveness is maintaining your data secrecy and your data flow.
Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning
A key to maintaining your company’s competitiveness is engaging and setting your AI plan as the technologies are integrated into your enterprise. Yarbrough Blackstone works to maximize your results by working with you and our technical partners in an interdisciplinary, strategic approach.
Cyber Security
Cybersecurity must be an integrated approach. As 80% of intrusions are caused by user error, mere technical approaches are insufficient. Care must be taken to combine technical protections along with nested administrative and legal methods to limit intrusions and damage from threat actors, both internal and external.
Investigations
Government compliance and investigatory response is a very challenging endeavour, often seeking responses across business units and with short timelines. Yarbrough Blackstone has expertise on both the government side and the respondent side, as well as actual former investigators on staff. The best responses are formulated before the formal, investigation occurs, and Yarbrough Blackstone specializes in providing consulting to best position an organization before an actual investigation occurs.
Litigation
We help our clients resolve their disputes in a cost-effective manner that produces results that provide comfort to our clients. We use our large law firm experience combined with our business experience to craft definitive dispute solution strategies.
Data Breach
Managing risk, liability and litigation associated with a data breach or cybersecurity/privacy incident has never been more important than now due to reputational harm and financial impacts to your company.
Yarbrough Blackstone and its team of data privacy, technology and cybersecurity experts serve in an outsourced counsel capacity providing industry wide knowledge of best practices concerning pro-active pre-breach transactional and post-breach incident response investigative services.