Siddharth “Sid” Bose is a partner in Ice Miller's Data Security and Privacy Practice.

As part of Ice Miller’s Data Security and Privacy practice, Sid counsels clients on various data security, privacy and compliance matters. His practice focuses on the intersection of technology and law. As a former IT systems engineer, Sid leverages his past IT experience to advise clients on matters related to privacy law, vendor negotiations and agreements, audit and compliance, data breaches and incident response, disaster recovery, and fast emerging technologies including blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), privacy and large-scale data analytics, and augmented/virtual reality.

Sid is also an adjunct professor at the Indiana University, Maurer School of Law. Sid teaches at the IU Cybersecurity Clinic on cybersecurity risk management and cybersecurity preparedness in pressing local, national, and global initiatives. 


 

Sid is a current board member of the Central Indiana chapter of Information Systems Security Association (ISSA). He is also a volunteer with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA), working group on IoT Security, Upgradability and Patching. As part of the working group, Sid participates in discussions on the impact of IoT devices and the need for a secure lifecycle approach to IoT devices. Sid is also a former co-chair of the Indianapolis chapter of the International Association of Privacy Professionals.


Sid also works on website accessibility matters. He understands that addressing website accessibility barriers can be challenging for clients. Resolving issues may require complex coding or architecture changes. To that end, Sid has helped clients develop a strategy to ensure they meet applicable accessibility requirements. Sid works with consultants and software developers to assess a client’s current compliance posture and accessibility of a client’s website(s), develops a strategy for remediating relevant accessibility barriers, and provides guidance in developing accessibility roadmaps that can mitigate risk from frivolous litigants.

Sid's work includes assisting clients with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) versions 2.0 and 2.1. Some of his representative work includes:
(1) Assisting a white-label software vendor develop a software development roadmap for its commercial software platform.
(2) Working with a real-estate management company with accessibility issues for over 20 websites that the company operated. 
(3) Helping an educational institution that was in the process of obtaining financial services that included an online and mobile platform, and negotiating contract provisions around accessibility requirements for the financial services provider’s online and mobile platforms.
4) Handling various frivolous “demand” letters that clients received from various firms alleging ADA violations, and negotiating settlement of demand letters; some without any payment.

Sid is also a registered patent attorney, whose intellectual property practice focuses on patent drafting and prosecution for domestic and foreign patents. Sid also works in areas of trademarks, copyrights, licensing, technology transactions, intellectual property protection, enforcement, and litigation.

Prior to joining Ice Miller, Sid was an IT Performance Specialist for almost 9 years, at a large multi-national company in St. Louis, MO. He was tasked with the assessment, testing and delivery of business critical applications and IT infrastructure services. Sid designed test cases to performance benchmark various hardware and software technologies. He also helped establish formalized IT processes for the successful testing and release of enterprise business applications. 

As part of his IT role, Sid also assisted in the negotiations of license and support contracts with various IT vendors to help maximize the value of vendor relationships.

Sid has also worked as an extern in the Office of General Counsel at one of Missouri’s largest utility companies. Sid’s work covered research in the areas of construction financing- particularly, prudence analysis and construction work in progress (CWIP); real estate and zoning laws; local and federal government regulatory affairs, including Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) compliance issues; and corporate affairs. 

Sid received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign, in 2007. He received his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Southern Illinois University, at Edwardsville, in 2009. He received his juris doctor, cum laude, from Saint Louis University School of Law in 2014.