Kimberly Kiefer Peretti

A former DOJ cybercrime prosecutor and former director of PwC’s cyber forensics group, Kim delivers top-of-the-line cyber-risk management and cybersecurity counsel to her clients. She led benchmark cybercrime cases as a former senior litigator for the DOJ’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. Kim’s background as a 25+ year information-security professional enhances her practice in managing technical cyber investigations, assisting clients with data-security-related regulatory inquiries, and advising boards and senior executives in cybersecurity and risk matters. She services clients in matters of privacy, national security process and requests, and payment systems compliance and risk mitigation.

Co-chair, firm’s Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team; co-chair, firm’s National Security & Digital Crimes Team; founder, Alston & Bird Ransomware Fusion Center; co-founder, Alston & Bird’s Women in Cyber Network; former director, PwC’s cyber forensics group; former senior litigator, Department of Justice Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section; Cybersecurity Docket “Incident Response 30/40/50” 2016–2026; CNN Declassified; BTI Consulting Group “Client Service All-Star.”

NACD Certificate in Cybersecurity Oversight; Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP); U.S. Secret Service Cyber Investigations Advisory Board; Practising Law Institute, Privacy and Cybersecurity Law co-chair, 2022–present.

University of Munich, Germany

LLM

1997

Georgetown University

JD

1996

University of Wisconsin

BA

1992