With more than 25 years of experience advising and representing businesses on law and technology issues, Adam Cohen focuses his practice on healthcare cybersecurity. Having earned professional certifications in information systems security (CISSP), cloud security (CCSP) and ethical hacking (CEH) during his years in technology consulting leadership positions, he brings an integrated perspective to legal advice in a field where compliance and information technology have converged. He serves clients across the spectrum of HIPAA-covered entities and business associates, from large regional hospital systems to community healthcare providers, employee health benefits plans to large insurers, healthcare technology providers and many others.
Adam specializes in assessing enterprise IT environments and cybersecurity programs, including the lifecycle of electronic-protected health information; identifying and analyzing intertwined legal, security and operational risks; and developing practical and impactful plans for mitigating risk and achieving legal compliance. Equally important, he crafts information governance and security program documentation and presents it in a way that optimizes legal and business outcomes for clients with regulators, customers or patients, business partners and adversaries – often when clients are facing post-incident regulatory scrutiny and class action litigation.
Adam is a well-established thought leader on law and technology, having authored or co-authored four published books, including "Electronic Discovery: Law and Practice" (Wolters Kluwer), a two-volume treatise cited in landmark federal court opinions that has been in publication for over 20 years. He has served as an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School for over a decade, teaching seminar courses on information governance and electronic discovery and evidence.