Kirsten Mickelson

Kirsten Mickelson leads the cyber practice group at Gallagher Bassett, which offers claims and risk management expertise to navigate the rapidly expanding cyber market overseeing cyber, technology, privacy, and data security matters, specifically focusing on cyber incident response, data breach response, privacy class actions, and data privacy compliance issues. 

Prior to joining Gallagher Bassett, Kirsten was a senior team manager and counsel at Coalition Inc. where she counseled customers in preparing for, and responding to, data breaches in their network infrastructure. She also served as senior claims counsel at Hiscox where she worked with affected cyber policyholders to respond to hundreds of cyber incidents and third-party claims involving data breaches, cyber extortion, ransomware, DDoS attacks, and business interruption losses.

Kirsten has been awarded the Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP) designation by the data privacy trade consortium, International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and is a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM).