Insecure Data: Is Your Law Firm Guilty?
Gordon Cowan
CEO CyBrilliance | Transformative Cyber Resilience Solutions | Remain Resilient in the face of Cyber Threats & Reputation Damage | Trusted Strategist in Operational Resilience, Business Continuity & Data Protection
Introduction: Unlike many other types of businesses, law firms are highly regulated and rely heavily on computers for communication, record-keeping, scheduling, data collection, and analysis. Lawyers must maintain the highest levels of professional responsibility to protect the confidential information of their clients and judicial proceedings.
A common notion?about computer security says that to truly be secure, you'd have to disconnect the computer from the internet, disconnect from any network and power it off and unplug it. It would be an understatement to describe such a computer as extremely inconvenient to use.
On one end of the spectrum, you require the highest level of security, and on the other, there is also a need to maintain optimum levels of operational accessibility and convenience. The highest levels of security and operational convenience have always been a balancing act where both need to exist at the expense of one another.
Knowing that computers are inherently insecure, how does a law firm secure its own data?
To determine where each law firm falls on the spectrum of security/convenience, it is important law firms regularly revisit their cyber security and cyber resilience technology, processes, and policies and implement all reasonable proactive and reactive controls.?
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2 年Great insight Gord, well done
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2 年Interesting article Sreenath. By nature, lawyers are like hoarders. They keep information for reference or future client work like will or legal document updates. In more complex law, like litigation for businesses or whatever it might be, attorneys are doing the same thing, which creates a treasure trove of high risk information. The reality is that when it comes to a breach, everyone thinks they’re in control right up until they’re not. At the end of the day, all law firms need to see themselves as a target. They have to accept where they are today in terms of the data protection and cyber resilience and understand where they need to get to in terms of hygiene, and assess what they need to do to achieve more a robust security and cyber resilience posture.
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2 年Given how privileged their info is, one would think law firms would be the biggest sticklers about data security… maybe they don’t realize that they are targets?
There are two kinds of law firms: those that know they have been hacked and those that don’t know they’ve been hacked. Law firms of all sizes are attractive targets to hackers because of the high volumes of important information they have. In addition, often once in a law firm system, it can be used as a gateway into the systems of connected clients.