Melanie J. Teplinsky

Associate

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Melanie J. Teplinsky is an associate in the Washington office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, where she focuses on electronic commerce issues. 

Prior to becoming an associate in the firm’s Technology Department, Ms. Teplinsky focused on information technology policy issues in the Executive Office of the President, dividing her time between the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Office of Management and Budget’s Office for Information and Regulatory Affairs, Information Technology Branch.  Her work in the executive branch touched on various aspects of information technology policy including content control, digital intellectual property initiatives, electronic authentication, encryption and privacy issues.

Ms. Teplinsky began her career in 1991 as an analyst at the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Maryland and continued her technical work at the Institute for Defense Analyses’ Center for Communications Research in Princeton, New Jersey.  She later authored an internal government white paper on United States encryption policy and served as a moderator for government-industry discussions on the same topic while working in the Computer Security Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.  She also authored one of a series of papers on network technologies while working for the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) Center for Information Strategy and Policy.

Noteworthy & Success Stories

• Harry S. Truman National Scholarship, 1995 
• Electric Power Win; FERC Must Expand Refund Remedy

Publications & Speaking Engagements

• Tax Executives Institute Seminar on Mergers and Acquisitions
  October 26, 2007
• Co-author, “Cybersecurity Law: What’s At Stake"
  July 29, 2002, Network World
• Co-author, “The Response to Cyberattacks: Balancing Security and Cost”
  2002, The International Lawyer
• Contributor, National Legal Center’s Executive Desk Book on Corporate Risks and Response for Homeland Security
  2002
• Co-author, “Should a Corporation Report a Security Breach to Law Enforcement”
  2001, Secure Business Quarterly, Third Quarter
• Co-author, “Unbundling: Rethinking Digital Identity in Cyberspace”
  1999, Accepted for presentation at the International Association of Science and Technology for Development annual conference
• Panelist, “The Emerging Law of Cyberbanking and Electronic Commerce,” Washington, DC, February 7, 2002
• Speaker, International Law Institute, Washington, DC
• Speaker, International E-Commerce Conference sponsored by American Conference Institute, September 2000
• Rapporteur, Joint OECD-Private Sector Workshop on Electronic Authentication. Contributed to background papers prepared by Steptoe & Johnson LLP for use as discussion pieces at the workshop, 1999
• Speaker, Architectures of Cyberspace Conference, Harvard Law School, 1998

Professional Affiliations

• American Bar Association
• District of Columbia Bar
• Maryland Bar