Charleston CyberLaw Forum: Automotive Security and Liability

Amy advises clients on proactive data security practices, data breach incident response, and regulatory compliance. She handles security incidents and has interacted with federal and state agencies and forensic service providers, overseen investigations, and designed post-incident response notification and remediation plans.

In addition to her incident response work, Amy provides compliance support on applicable security laws, PCI-DSS, and security audit standards such as NIST. She also facilitates in-depth security incident simulations. Amy is a former technology consultant and chief information security officer (CISO), and previously owned and operated a technology consulting company.

Todd Benoff focuses his trial practice on high-exposure cases in the areas of products liability, toxic torts/mass torts, and business litigation, including complex False Claims Act matters and consumer class actions. He also focuses on cybersecurity issues presented by connected and autonomous vehicles.

In his products liability and toxic tort work, Todd has defended manufacturers of cars, trucks and trailers, as well as electrical distribution products, specialty chemicals and water distribution systems and components. Todd handles a wide array of business litigation matters, including consumer class actions, unfair business practice claims, contract disputes, shareholder derivative actions, and disputes involving real estate purchases and investments. Todd also practices at the appellate level.

Todd has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America© (2023 and 2024) and was selected to the “Rising Stars” list by Southern California Super Lawyers (2007–2012). He received both his B.A. and J.D. from the University of Virginia in 1994 and 1997, respectively.

Michael Bryant is a Senior Consultant and penetration tester with SecureWorks Adversary Group. He has over twenty-two years of experience in the information security field, including both offensive, defensive and compliance roles. He holds both an Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) and CISSP certification and graduated from Clemson University with a degree in Electrical Engineering.