Data and cybersecurity breaches are a top concern for all businesses. Every organization has a business interest and a legal obligation to take appropriate steps to protect its data and systems, and to deal with incidents quickly when they happen.

Taking the right approach to cybersecurity compliance and dealing with incidents swiftly is essential, but can be challenging, especially if approached on a global scale. Dentons has one of the most sophisticated and largest dedicated privacy and cybersecurity teams across the globe, with deep privacy and cybersecurity expertise in every region. Our global team has extensive experience advising on all aspects of data and cybersecurity compliance, incident preparedness and data breaches.

2025 global cybersecurity legal risk essentials: As global cybersecurity regulations continue to evolve at pace, this practical session explores what General Counsel and in-house legal teams need to know when it comes to mitigating cybersecurity-related legal risk across your global organization. During our February 2025 CX program webinar, a distinguished panel of experts shared key lessons from advising clients throughout 2024, examined emerging legislative developments, and discussed strategies to enhance risk mitigation and organizational resilience. Global Privacy and Cybersecurity group panellists included: Antonis Patrikios, UK, Gilbert Leong, Singapore, Michael Park, Australia, Ambuj Sonal, India, Chantal Bernier, Canada,Alison Jetton, USA, Christian Schefold, Germany, Dr. Kuan Hon, UK. View the recording from the session below.

Our solutions

• Integrated Data Breach Response Solution
• Cybersecurity Compliance and Preparedness 

Integrated Data Breach Response Solution

When a breach occurs, our integrated global team, together with our trusted specialist partners, will help you respond swiftly, efficiently and proportionately, in accordance with legal obligations and consistent with regulatory expectations.

• Global cover: We can act rapidly when cross-border data breaches occur. Our global team includes leading privacy and cybersecurity lawyers in 100+ jurisdictions worldwide, with an additional external network of privacy and cybersecurity specialists in regions where we do not have office locations.
• Multidisciplinary teams: Our cybersecurity team includes experts across legal practices, such as financial regulatory, litigation, asset recovery, investigations and labour law relations. Together, we are well positioned to help you identify and implement the optimal business solution.
• Partnerships: We have partnerships and trusted relationships with leading cybersecurity consultancies, digital forensics, strategic communications and PR service providers, as well as providers of other services that may be required when dealing with a serious breach, such as, investigations, insurance, e-discovery, legal tech solutions, call centre and other fulfilment support. 

We work together with your in-house team and other partners to support you through all stages of incident response, including:

1. Immediate response and containment
2. Triaging and carrying out preliminary impact assessments and risk assessments
3. Breach notification requirements and strategy, drafting and handling notifications to regulators, data subjects and other stakeholders
4. Remedial action
5. Engaging specialist service providers, such as providers of forensics, investigations, call centres, notifications and fulfilment, fraud prevention, credit monitoring
6. Working with PR to help ensure consistency of internal and external messaging, preserve the legal position and protect the brand
7. Handling regulatory liaison
8. Advising on data subject requests, complaints and claims
9. Dispute resolution and litigation support
10. Designing and running lessons learnt sessions

Cybersecurity Compliance and Preparedness

Our integrated global team ensures that you are compliant with all obligations in preparing your company and incident response team to respond to a data breach effectively and efficiently, taking into account regulatory expectations and market practice.

• Cybersecurity and incident response policies, processes and plans
• Compliance with legal, regulatory, contractual and industry requirements
• Cybersecurity governance frameworks
• Incident response team, insurance and partnering with service providers
• Fixed price products
• Preparing templates and tools
• Training and supporting awareness initiatives
• Senior stakeholder workshops, simulations and table-top exercises
• Data and cyber security due diligence and audits
• Strategic and Intelligence Services

Recognition

Dentons named amongst BTI Consulting’s “Most Feared Law Firms in Litigation”

September 29, 2025

Dentons has once again been named amongst BTI Consulting’s “Awesome Opponents” in BTI Litigation Outlook 2026, which spotlights the “Most Feared Law Firms in Litigation” that top legal decision-makers are most afraid to face against in litigation.

Insights

Farley v. Equiniti – shifts in the landscape of data breach claims

September 23, 2025

United Kingdom: In Farley and Others v. Paymaster (1836) Limited (trading as Equiniti) [2025] EWCA Civ 1117, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales has held thatin principle, a claimant can recover compensation for fear of the consequences of an infringement of their rights under the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018); and there is no "threshold of seriousness" for such claims under English law (as with the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union  concerning the General Data Protection Regulation).

Irish Supreme Court removes procedural hurdle for data breach claims: are more "mass claims" on the horizon?

July 31, 2025

Ireland: As data breaches and cyberattacks have increased, litigation claims seeking compensation arising from these incidents has also increased. Typically, these claims seek compensation for the anxiety and distress arising from personal data being accessed by third parties.

Saudi Arabia's framework for cross-border data transfers

May 15, 2025

Saudi Arabia: Most global businesses today are well acquainted with the challenges of transferring personal data across borders, primarily relying on adequacy decisions (where they apply) and various transfer solutions to ensure compliance with transfer requirements.

View all insights for Cybersecurity and Data Breach Response

News and Events

Recent Press Releases

Dentons named amongst BTI Consulting’s “Most Feared Law Firms in Litigation”

September 29, 2025

Dentons has once again been named amongst BTI Consulting’s “Awesome Opponents” in BTI Litigation Outlook 2026, which spotlights the “Most Feared Law Firms in Litigation” that top legal decision-makers are most afraid to face against in litigation.

Dentons deepens cyber security, privacy and technology expertise in Australia with new partner

November 30, 2023

Dentons is pleased to announce the addition of Michael Park as a Partner in its leading Intellectual Property and Technology practice in Melbourne.