Nick Merker provides practical, actionable privacy compliance and cybersecurity incident response counseling from the lens of a practitioner with a ten-year, pre-law computer systems, network, and security engineering background. Nick is a computer scientist by trade and, prior to becoming an attorney, he led the information security team and program at a large .com. He leverages his deep understanding of Internet architecture, technology systems, and new media to help clients navigate the ever-changing privacy and cybersecurity legal landscape. He is also a sought-after international speaker, teacher, writer and professor on data security and privacy-related legal issues. He has led training and/or presentations at major international conferences, including BlackHat, RSA, TwitchCon, the Global Privacy Summit, Privacy. Security. Risk., the ISSA International Conference, and others. He is also Faculty at the International Association of Privacy Professionals where he leads global privacy trainings to executives, engineers, lawyers and managers. Each Fall, Nick teaches Data Security/Privacy Skills at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, a class focused on providing law school students the skills necessary to actually practice in this area.