Mary T. Costigan is Of Counsel in the Berkeley Heights office of Jackson Lewis P.C. She holds a Certified Information Privacy Professional/US designation from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (iapp). Ms. Costigan advises multinational, national, and regional companies on emerging privacy and cybersecurity issues, including the broad and growing array of mandates, best practices, and preventive safeguards. In particular, she focuses on advising and assisting clients in matters relating to compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and U.S. privacy and data security standards such as HIPAA/HITECH. She also assists clients with data breach preparation and response, biometric data collection policies, vendor security assessments, and data security agreements, including business associate agreements.