Evan D.Wolff is a partner in Crowell & Moring’s Washington, D.C. office, where he is co-chair of the firm’s Chambers USA-ranked Privacy and Cybersecurity Group and a member of the Government Contracts Group. Evan has a national reputation for his deep technical background and understanding of complex cybersecurity legal and policy issues. Calling upon his experiences as a scientist, program manager, and lawyer, Evan takes an innovative approach to developing blended legal, technical, and governance mechanisms to prepare companies with rapid and comprehensive responses to rapidly evolving cybersecurity risks and threats. Evan has conducted training and incident simulations, developed response plans, led privileged investigations, and advised on hundreds of data breaches where he works closely with forensic investigators .Evan also counsels businesses on both domestic and international privacy compliance matters, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).He is also a Registered Practitioner under the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) framework. Representing a broad range of companies across multiple sectors including government contractors, the defense industrial base, transportation, energy, health care, insurance, hospitality, education, and non-profit, Evan’s legal practice has a focus on regulatory compliance including Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS), General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR), Privacy Shield, the SAFETY Act, and the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act (CFATS). Evan also advises companies on computer network security, general security issues, investigation coordination after intrusions, data breaches, and insurance-related issues.

Prior to entering private practice, Evan served as an advisor to the senior leadership at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Previously, he held the position of principal homeland security policy analyst/project manager to The MITRE Corporation and also served as general counsel and senior geospatial analyst for isciences LLC; vice president and principal of Environmental Protection International; and senior geologist at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Adding to his credentials, Evan was inducted into the Council on Foreign Relations in 2017 joining other thought leaders, including top government officials, global business leaders, members of the intelligence and foreign policy community, journalists, and prominent lawyers, to help shape
foreign policy.

Evan serves on the Sandia National Lab External Advisory Board, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce National Security Task Force, as a panel member on the Defense Science Board at the Department of Defense, and as a senior adviser at the Homeland Security and Defense Business Council. Evan is currently the co-chair of the ABA Homeland Security Law Institute, as well as a senior adviser to the ABA Committee on Law and National Security. In 2011, Evan was invited to serve as a member of the Aspen Institute’s Homeland Security Group. Evan also serves as a senior associate (non-resident), Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS). In 2014, Evan co-authored an ABA Section of Criminal Justice article titled, “Industry Collaborations on Cybersecurity: Protecting Against Antitrust Violations,” which was selected as one of the “Best Articles” for the Business category, Anticompetitive Practice section at the 2015 Antitrust Writing Awards in Washington, D.C.

Evan is currently teaching a class on Cybersecurity at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and has previously been an adjunct professor at George Mason University School of Law, a global fellow with the Wilson Center, and a senior advisor to The Chertoff Group, a global security advisory firm based in Washington, D.C.