
Kyle is a lawyer in the Dentons global Data Privacy and Cybersecurity group. Kyle’s practice builds on his career as a cybersecurity professional in bringing value to clients with needs related to cybersecurity, data privacy, intellectual property, and technology.
Kyle counsels clients across all phases of their systems development lifecycle. He drafts and assesses organizations’ cybersecurity programs, performing gap and risk assessments under applicable information security frameworks and standards. He also crafts and leads cybersecurity tabletop exercises to test and practice organizations’ cybersecurity programs. He drafts and implements data privacy programs compliant with domestic and global legal regimes. Kyle has significant experience reviewing and negotiating technology contracts including data rights and transfer agreements. Kyle also handles trade secret, trademark, and other intellectual property disputes.
Kyle has extensive experience as cybersecurity incident and disclosure counsel for organizations ranging from small businesses to global corporations. Kyle efficiently coordinates with forensic investigators to assist victims of cyber-attacks in mitigating and recovering from damage caused by malicious actors. When necessary, Kyle crafts regulatory and consumer disclosures related to these cybersecurity incidents.
He is a 2017 graduate of the Vanderbilt University Law School, where he founded the Law and Technology Society. As a law student, Kyle helped plan Nashville’s 2nd Annual Data Monetization Conference as well as an award-winning Legal Hackathon. Prior to law school, he managed network administration and information security for a healthcare data analytics company, building professional experience around risk management, data privacy, security incident response and regulatory compliance. He earned his undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Louisville and also holds a Master of Science in Applied Information Technology from Bellarmine University.
While at Vanderbilt, Kyle clerked for the United States Attorney’s Office, focusing on the areas of healthcare fraud, white collar crime and computer crime prosecution.