Biography

Scot Ganow is chair of Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP’s privacy and data security practice. As a former chief privacy officer and leveraging more than 10 years of management and compliance experience in Fortune 500 companies, Ganow brings a diverse business background to his privacy and data security practice. Ganow has represented clients in a variety of sectors, including consumer reporting, construction, health care, and manufacturing. Ganow assists clients in all areas of the data life cycle, including:

  • Policy development, implementation, assessment and training;
  • Identifying, evaluating, and managing privacy and security risks;
  • Third-party management, including onward transfer agreements and audits; and
  • Data breach and incident response management and counseling.

Ganow assists clients in dealing with a variety of data governance regulations, including GDPR, HIPAA, GLBA, FCRA, and state laws governing personally identifiable information. Ganow counsels clients on compliance with various information security standards, including PCI-DSS for credit card data, ISO and NIST. Ganow also represents clients in responding to information security events, including data breaches. Scot holds the Certified Information Privacy Professional certification and has presented and written extensively about data protection and de-identification and moderated panels on privacy. Ganow spoke in Washington, D.C., at the Global Summit of the International Association of Privacy Professionals and the Privacy + Security Conference. Ganow spoke about “Humanity in Privacy” at TEDx Dayton 2016.

In addition to his data privacy and security practice, Ganow  has experience with intellectual property matters as a patent attorney. He also counsels clients on general business law matters.

Ganow attended the University of Dayton School of Law, where he currently serves as an adjunct professor of law. He clerked for the University of Dayton general counsel’s office and the Cincinnati Reds general counsel. He is admitted to practice in Ohio, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Ganow has served as an enlisted soldier and officer in the Army National Guard for 11 years. He has also worked as a football official since 2007, officiating football at the high school and collegiate levels.