Gain an advantage: protect your law firm from security breaches
Cybersecurity breaches might seem like a distant concern for law firms, when there are multiple client engagements on the go, and when attackers appear to target only the big names like Google and Yahoo. But picture the following scenarios and the threat becomes more apparent:
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<li>A member of a law firm finds a flash drive with the firm’s logo lying on the floor outside the firm’s offices. Wanting to be helpful and return the drive to its owner, they insert it into a computer – and unknowingly download a flood of malware that opens the firm’s network to hackers.</li>
<li>One evening, a member of the firm’s IT department, working late, takes a phone call from a distraught, angry-sounding person claiming she’s one of the firm’s partners, she can’t access the system, and she needs to change her password <em>right now</em>. The IT employee is so intimidated that he complies – and doesn’t pick up on the fact that the caller is really a hacker using social engineering to break into the system.</li>
<li>A disgruntled employee uses a flash drive to download a few crucial files disclosing the firm’s litigation strategy in a major case, to sell vital information to the opposing counsel in that litigation.</li>
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Apr 27, 2017
