Full Name
Karen Painter Randall
Job Title
Attorney, Cyber Law Task Force
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University of South Carolina
Speaker Bio
Karen Painter Randall is a partner and Certified Civil Trial attorney at Connell Foley LLP, where she chairs the Cybersecurity, Data Privacy and Incident Response Group. With extensive experience counseling clients on cybersecurity, data rights, and privacy laws and regulation, Karen provides proactive measures to safeguard the enterprise data, including security assessments, policies and procedures, security awareness training, incident response plans, and cyber liability insurance.
Karen holistically guides a wide array of businesses through the rapidly evolving cybersecurity and privacy space, including GDPR, CCPA, FERPA, HIPAA, PCI DSS and TCPA compliance. Her clients span multiple industries, from financial services, to healthcare, public entities, education, transportation and retail, as well as lawyers and other licensed professionals.
In addition, Karen serves as incident response counsel for businesses and for cyber liability insurance carriers, leading the incident response effort quickly and efficiently on crippling data breaches and vulnerabilities, particularly those involving insider threats, business email compromise and ransomware attacks. She drives strategic solutions related to post‐breach issues, including forensic and e‐discovery investigations, statutory notification requirements in all 50 states, remediation, class action litigation, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) inquiries or regulatory enforcement actions, and FTC, HHS and state attorney general investigations. In addition to incident response, Karen has a depth of experience managing third‐party vendor risk and drafting vendor agreements.
Karen received three presidential appointments to the American Bar Association’s Cybersecurity Legal Task Force, and was recently appointed as the Task Force’s Private Sector Liaison. She is the founder and Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association Cybersecurity Legal Task Force, and the University of South Carolina School of Law selected Karen to lead its Cybersecurity Legal Task Force and serve as Director of the annual National Cybersecurity Institute. In addition, Karen serves as Chair of the USLAW Network Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Group.
A sought‐after speaker, Karen presents frequently on a wide range of emerging concerns in the area of cybersecurity and data privacy. She is often quoted in business and trade publication articles on key cyber and data privacy issues, including recently on the issue of safeguarding the online privacy of federal Judges. Karen has been honored with the “NJ Digi-Tech Innovators Award" from NJBIZ for both years that the publication has held this program, including the inaugural awards in 2019 when Karen was the only attorney among the 34 honorees selected for this award. She has been selected repeatedly for inclusion in the “Top 50 Female SuperLawyers” in New Jersey.
A Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, Karen was appointed by Chief Justice Stuart Rabner to serve on the Board on Civil Trial Certification. Karen's commitment to leadership, frequent speaking and writing underscore her trailblazing impact on the cybersecurity landscape.
Karen holistically guides a wide array of businesses through the rapidly evolving cybersecurity and privacy space, including GDPR, CCPA, FERPA, HIPAA, PCI DSS and TCPA compliance. Her clients span multiple industries, from financial services, to healthcare, public entities, education, transportation and retail, as well as lawyers and other licensed professionals.
In addition, Karen serves as incident response counsel for businesses and for cyber liability insurance carriers, leading the incident response effort quickly and efficiently on crippling data breaches and vulnerabilities, particularly those involving insider threats, business email compromise and ransomware attacks. She drives strategic solutions related to post‐breach issues, including forensic and e‐discovery investigations, statutory notification requirements in all 50 states, remediation, class action litigation, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) inquiries or regulatory enforcement actions, and FTC, HHS and state attorney general investigations. In addition to incident response, Karen has a depth of experience managing third‐party vendor risk and drafting vendor agreements.
Karen received three presidential appointments to the American Bar Association’s Cybersecurity Legal Task Force, and was recently appointed as the Task Force’s Private Sector Liaison. She is the founder and Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association Cybersecurity Legal Task Force, and the University of South Carolina School of Law selected Karen to lead its Cybersecurity Legal Task Force and serve as Director of the annual National Cybersecurity Institute. In addition, Karen serves as Chair of the USLAW Network Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Group.
A sought‐after speaker, Karen presents frequently on a wide range of emerging concerns in the area of cybersecurity and data privacy. She is often quoted in business and trade publication articles on key cyber and data privacy issues, including recently on the issue of safeguarding the online privacy of federal Judges. Karen has been honored with the “NJ Digi-Tech Innovators Award" from NJBIZ for both years that the publication has held this program, including the inaugural awards in 2019 when Karen was the only attorney among the 34 honorees selected for this award. She has been selected repeatedly for inclusion in the “Top 50 Female SuperLawyers” in New Jersey.
A Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, Karen was appointed by Chief Justice Stuart Rabner to serve on the Board on Civil Trial Certification. Karen's commitment to leadership, frequent speaking and writing underscore her trailblazing impact on the cybersecurity landscape.
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