David Cook advises on contentious cyber
security, privacy, and data protection
matters and has done for over 15
years. He acts for a global
client-base that routinely turns to him
for advice on a cross-border basis and
with significant and complicated legal,
regulatory, and reputational implications.
David’s practice covers the range of
cyber risk management, governance, and
incident reporting issues. He has
extensive experience coordinating high
profile and sensitive cyber security
incident response and data protection
regulatory engagement. He is
routinely engaged to support with
regulatory notification, internal
investigation and support and
representation in the civil and the
criminal law jurisdictions.
His practice extends to cyber security
technical controls work, which is an area
of expertise informed by his background in
learning to code at the age of seven years
old through to his time spent in a Big 4
professional services consultancy.
That thorough technical understanding
underpins David’s position at the
forefront of this area of law.
He has delivered training to a number of
police teams in how to effectively
investigate and evidence cyber
crime. He was invited by Keir
Starmer KC, the then Director of Public
Prosecutions, to a roundtable meeting of
experts considering CPS policy on the
prosecution of cyber crime.
He has delivered seminars and key-note
presentations to the University of
Manchester, University of Derby, Henley
Business School and at the National Cyber
Security Centre funded centre of cyber
security excellence at the University of
Lancaster.
