Emily Cannon is an Associate in Mullen Coughlin’s Incident Response practice group. As “Breach Counsel” for organizations who are suffering from, or in the midst of, a data privacy and security incident, Emily leads the legal response and investigation into the incident. She is responsible for guiding victim organizations through the full lifecycle of an incident response – including coordination and direction of a third-party digital forensic investigation firm; liaising with the organization’s cyber insurance’s claims team; reporting to law enforcement; and analyzing the legal and regulatory requirements stemming from the incident, and effectuating any notification deemed applicable by law, regulation or industry best practice. She also coordinates and directs post-incident provisions such as credit and identity monitoring and drafting internal and external communications regarding the incident and the organization’s legal response.

Before joining Mullen Coughlin, Emily worked as a cyber strategic planning and policy specialist federal contractor relating to the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) Chief Information Officer (CIO) CMMC Program Management Office. There, she developed a new federal rule relating to cybersecurity standards for all DoD contractors.

Prior to working for the DoD, she was a federal contractor for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) as a dissemination policy analyst. There she researched, analyzed and disseminated intelligence reports to foreign partners. Emily has also supported the National Security Agency (NSA) as an Arabic language analyst working near real-time missions, as well as strategic development of targets.

Prior to that, Emily was a member of the United States Marine Corps, serving as Signals Intelligence Analyst and an Arabic Cryptologic Linguist at 2D Radio Battalion at Camp Lejeune. Because of this, she is fluent in Arabic and also has a TS//SCI Security Clearance.

Emily received her J.D. from the University of Baltimore Law School, and a B.A. from The Ohio State University. While a J.D. candidate, she was a student attorney in the Immigrant Justice Clinic assisting immigrants with their visa applications.