Terence Zhu

Terence’s experience spans cross-border cybersecurity and data privacy advisory, cyber incident response, digital forensic investigations, and broader technology-enabled compliance and risk matters.

He regularly supports clients, external counsel, and other stakeholders on matters requiring close coordination across legal, technical, operational, and regulatory considerations, and has experience helping organizations move from high-level compliance expectations to practical control design, technical implementation, incident management, and remediation.

His work covers both governance and hands-on technical aspects of security, privacy, and investigative matters, with a focus on delivering practical, defensible, and operationally workable outcomes.

He also supports clients on cyber incident response, ransomware preparedness, and broader cyber resilience matters. His experience includes incident triage and scoping, forensic preservation and fact development, root cause analysis, attack reconstruction, remediation planning, and the alignment of technical response activities with legal, privacy, and reporting obligations.

He has worked closely with corporate clients, external counsel, and cyber insurers on cross-border matters requiring coordinated management of legal, technical, and regulatory considerations.

Representative Experience

• Advising on cross-border cybersecurity, data privacy, and regulatory compliance matters, including privacy and security control design, technical and operational control implementation, data mapping and transfer governance, risk and impact assessments, service and platform control reviews, and regulator-ready documentation.
• Translating legal and regulatory requirements into practical governance measures, technical standards, control frameworks, and operating procedures that can be implemented across business and technology environments.
• Supporting cyber incident response, ransomware preparedness, and broader cyber resilience matters, including incident triage and scoping, forensic preservation and fact development, root cause analysis, attack reconstruction, remediation planning, and the alignment of technical response activities with legal, privacy, and reporting obligations.
• Working closely with corporate clients, external counsel, and cyber insurers on cross-border matters requiring coordinated management of legal, technical, and regulatory considerations.
• Supporting digital forensic investigations, information technology network analysis, e-discovery, and software license compliance matters involving data incidents, fraud, employee misconduct, intellectual property issues, and other sensitive investigations.
• Assisting with the collection and review of forensic evidence, analysis of system and network artifacts, assessment of technical environments and control issues, and presentation of technical findings for legal teams, management, and other non-technical stakeholders.
• Supporting the development and refinement of incident response frameworks, including playbooks, escalation procedures, decision-making protocols, and tabletop exercises designed to strengthen operational readiness.
• Serving as a subject-matter expert of European Commission’s Digital Services Act Monitoring Trustee, contributing to technical review, risk evaluation, implementation assessment, and ongoing compliance monitoring in relation to large China-headquartered online platforms subject to European Union oversight.

Through this combination of regulatory, investigative, and technical experience, Terence supports clients across the full lifecycle of cyber and compliance matters, from proactive compliance and control design to technical assessment, incident response, forensic investigation, remediation, and longer-term risk management.