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Law firms have unparalleled access to sensitive and private information of all public and private aspects, all of which are prime targets for cybercriminals.
In the first year of the pandemic, companies were forced to change their remote work model, which relied heavily on conferencing tools. The confusion and unfamiliarity created a smokescreen for cybercriminals and opened up new opportunities for exploitation. The ABA issued formal opinion 498 to address virtual activities and remind lawyers of their obligations even when doing business in a distributed model.
This report is the culmination of thousands of investigations into billions of cyber security and legal services incidents. The numbers are complicated, but the lesson you can guess is simple. Criminals target law firms and know how to look like industry insiders. To protect your company, you need an understanding of threats, strong security plans, and the involvement of all team members.
The amount and location of sensitive information continues to grow. An ad hoc, decentralized approach to security can lead to vulnerabilities that put company and customer data at serious risk.
We empirically enforce and maintain the confidentiality of all sensitive customer information wherever it resides in the company. Assure top customers that information is protected from fraudulent disclosure, fostering the trust needed for a successful and ongoing relationship. It administers the ethical screening required for lateral hiring and provides activity monitoring to identify actions that may indicate imminent departure.
Maintaining customer confidentiality, compliance, and everything we need to manage the environment and the data within it is very important to us.
The amount and location of sensitive information continues to grow. An ad hoc, decentralized approach to security can lead to vulnerabilities that put company and customer data at serious risk.
Protect and manage all sensitive information policies for your company through a single administrative dashboard. Protect information in any application or data source, eliminating the need and complexity of managing policy changes.
Notify users that information security policies have been applied through automatic application notifications and alerts. Add and implement additional user compliance controls using electronic verification of highly sensitive information.
A dedicated self-service web interface provides complete visibility to risk managers, while allowing professionals to change their access to the interaction at any time. In December, frequent co-author Dave Reiss wrote an excellent summary of the cybersecurity section of the ABA’s 2021 Legal Technology Research Report. Perhaps the most striking statistic is that 25 percent of survey respondents reported that law firms had been breached at some point. Obviously, law firms are an attractive target for cybercriminals. With so much data on so many people and so many businesses, law firms are a one-stop shop for gathering a wealth of information. Here’s what other ABA data shows and what’s troubling about law firm cybersecurity trends: Some of the ABA Model Rules are specifically designed to protect customer data, such as Capabilities (Model Rule 1.1), Communication (Model Rule 1.4), Information Confidentiality (Model Rule 1.6), Monitoring (Model Rules 5.1, 5.2, 5.3). When using technology, the rule is that lawyers use reasonable and appropriate means to protect the confidentiality of client information, contact clients about the use of technology, and notify clients when necessary. We seek to acquire Consent is informed and monitored.
More than half (53%) of respondents say they have a policy that governs their data retention. According to the survey results, 60% from email, 56% from the Internet, 57% from computer usage policy, 56% from remote access, 48% from social media, 32% from personal technology / BYOD (bring your own device ) use and 44 percent to protect the privacy of employees. As you can imagine, this number is increasing year by year.
17% of respondents reported that there is no policy in place and 8% are concerned that they are unaware of their security policy. Obviously, many firms need to up their games.
Only 36% of respondents say they have an incident response plan (IRP). Here, firm size makes a big difference, with 12% of single firms having them, as well as 21% of firms with 2-9 lawyers. For firms with more than 100 lawyers, this number rises to 80%.
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