Reiley Porter helps clients navigate their most sensitive cybersecurity incidents, from the first hours of a breach through any resulting regulatory inquiry or investigation. Her practice spans crisis management and multijurisdictional investigations, including matters that draw significant media attention, and regulatory issues impacting companies across the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Reiley advises clients across the full incident life cycle from proactive cybersecurity and maturity assessments conducted before an incident occurs, to post-incident investigations, developing strategies for and overseeing complex data analyses, and coordinating third-party forensic and internal investigation efforts. She also manages communications with regulatory agencies and impacted stakeholders throughout the incident response process.

She has successfully defended clients in numerous regulatory inquiries regarding data security practices, including investigations by U.S. state attorneys general and international regulators following data security incidents.

Reiley maintains an active pro bono practice, including counseling small businesses and non-profit organizations on cybersecurity issues. Among her other pro bono experience, Reiley was a key member of a team providing urgent sanctions advice in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and she supported a team defending the civil rights of Georgia voters related to Georgia’s adoption of an unreliable election system.

Reiley received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was a student advocate in the Cyberlaw Clinic and a citations manager and editor for the Journal of Law & Technology. She has extensive experience advising on and writing about issues at the intersection of law and technology. While in law school, Reiley also worked in the Office of General Counsel at the Federal Communications Commission.

Before law school, Reiley graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in computer science from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and worked in a National Science Foundation-funded research lab developing Quorum, an evidence-oriented programming language developed with accessibility in mind.