Steven W. Teppler
CEO, TimeCertain
Steven W. Teppler is an attorney, inventor, and the CEO of TimeCertain, LLC, an information security solutions company. He founded TimeCertain in 1999 after having confronted first-hand the evidentiary issues presented by challenge-prone digital data content. Mr. Teppler, a litigator who has practiced law since 1980, is admitted to the bars of New York, the District of Columbia and Florida. Mr. Teppler is a member of the Information Security Committee of the American Bar Association, a co-author of the ANSI X9F4 trusted timestamp guideline standards for the financial industry, a founding member of the Information Assurance Consortium, and a member of the Sedona Conference Workgroup 1.
Mr. Teppler writes about and lectures to the legal, auditing and information security communities about evolving theories of computer generated information and evolving theories of liability, practice and evidence in an electronic data universe. He also advises private and public sector clients about risk, liability, and compliance issues unique to electronic data generation, alteration, transmission and archiving.
Mr. Teppler is a member of the Florida Bar Professional Ethics Committee, and contributed to Advisory Opinion 06-02 (Metadata Mining). Mr. Teppler’s recent publications include: Spoliation in the Digital Universe; The SciTech Lawyer, American Bar Association, Fall 2007, Life After Sarbanes-Oxley – The Merger of Information Security and Accountability (co-author) 45 Jurimetrics J. 379 (2005); Digital Signatures Are Not Enough (co-author); Information Systems Security Association, January 2006; State of Connecticut v. Swinton: A Discussion of the Basics of Digital Evidence Admissibility (co-author), Georgia Bar Newsletter Technology Law Section, Spring 2005; The Digital Signature Paradox (co-author), IETF Information Workshop (The West Point Workshop) June 2005; Observations on Electronic Service of Process in the South Carolina Court System, efiling Report, June 2005. Mr. Teppler is also a contributing author to an upcoming American Bar Association book working titled “Foundations of Digital Evidence” (publication expected February 2008).
Mr. Teppler received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science Summa Cum Laude from the City College of New York, Phi Beta Kappa, and received his Juris Doctor from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City.
