Scott Ferber

Partner

Scott leverages his extensive experience as a former federal cybercrime prosecutor, in senior leadership at the US Department of Justice, and as a former AmLaw 25 law firm partner to advise clients across industries on the full range of security issues created by global data collection and usage. This includes responding to cyber incidents and managing complex cyber risk assessments. Scott often defends clients in regulatory investigations by the Federal Trade Commission, State Attorneys General and other federal, state and local regulators and criminal authorities.

Scott has managed hundreds of cybersecurity incidents, including sophisticated nation-state intrusions, ransomware attacks, business email compromises, cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property, and credential harvesting schemes. Scott’s deep experience in incident response and regulatory enforcement informs his broader counseling practice.

During his decade-long tenure with DOJ, Scott served in leadership roles, including as an Associate Deputy Attorney General, where he advised the Deputy Attorney General and Attorney General on cyber and national security matters. Scott was the DOJ lead on White House and interagency policy groups addressing cyber incident response, cyber legislation, public/private partnerships, election integrity and nation-state cyber threats. Scott also served as Counsel for Cyber Investigations in DOJ’s National Security Division, where he advised federal prosecutors, law enforcement agencies and the intelligence community on cyber matters affecting national security and foreign relations. Scott also was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Atlanta, where he served as the office’s Computer Hacking / Intellectual Property Coordinator, tried numerous jury trials and briefed and argued multiple cases before the US Circuit Court of Appeals.

While at DOJ, Scott investigated and prosecuted a wide array of criminal and national security cases, including involving international cyber threats, economic espionage, the illegal export of military and strategic commodities, fraud, public corruption and money laundering.

Scott previously served as an Assistant District Attorney at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.

Scott currently teaches Cybersecurity Governance and Cybersecurity Risk Management at the Kogod School of Business at American University.