Karen P. Randall

Karen Painter Randall is a partner and Certified Civil Trial attorney at Connell Foley LLP, where she chairs the Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Group and leads the Incident Response Team. With extensive experience counseling clients on cybersecurity, data rights, and privacy laws and regulation, Karen provides proactive measures to safeguard the enterprise data, including security assessments, policies and procedures, security awareness training, incident response plans, and cyber liability insurance. She holistically guides a wide array of businesses through the rapidly evolving cybersecurity and privacy space, including GDPR, CCPA, FERPA, HIPAA, PCI DSS and TCPA compliance. Her clients span multiple industries, from financial services, to healthcare, public entities, education, transportation and retail, as well as lawyers and other licensed professionals. Karen also serves as incident response counsel for businesses and for cyber liability insurance carriers, leading the incident response effort quickly and efficiently on crippling data breaches and vulnerabilities, particularly those involving insider threats, business email compromise and ransomware attacks. She drives strategic solutions related to post‐breach issues, including forensic and e‐discovery investigations, statutory notification requirements in all 50 states, remediation, class action litigation, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) inquiries or regulatory enforcement actions, and FTC, HHS and state attorney general investigations. In addition to incident response, Karen has a depth of experience managing third-party vendor risk and drafting vendor agreements. A sought-after speaker, Karen presents frequently on a wide range of emerging concerns in the area of cybersecurity and data privacy. She is often quoted in business and trade publication articles on key cyber and data privacy issues, including recently on the issue of safeguarding the online privacy of federal Judges. Karen recently received her third presidential appointment to the American Bar Association's Cybersecurity Legal Task Force. She is the founder and Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association Cybersecurity Legal Task Force. The University of South Carolina School of Law also selected Karen to lead its Cybersecurity Legal Task Force and serve as Director of the annual National Cybersecurity Institute. In addition, Karen serves as Chair of the USLAW Network Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Group. In May 2019, Karen was named by NJBIZ as a winner of the inaugural "NJ DigiTech Innovators Awards and was the only attorney among the 34 honorees selected for this award. She has repeatedly been selected for inclusion in the "Top 50 Female SuperLawyers in New Jersey.