As cyberthreats evolve and proliferate, more insurers are expanding options to help law firms mitigate loss. However, without industry standards, coverage and cost vary from plan to plan, sometimes causing gaps in potential coverage.
With a single click, a law firm can be brought to its knees.
On May 22, 2015, an employee at Moses Afonso Ryan, a small business-law firm in Providence, Rhode Island, opened an attachment in an email from an unknown source.
Within a short time, every document and device on…
The vulnerability, which is being…
Anna Stolley Persky
Lawyers don’t have to break the bank if they wish to be protected from cybertheft. But that doesn’t mean they can afford to be cheap in selecting security products and services.
As this yearlong series has already covered, lawyers and law firms are sitting on valuable information that could be worth billions to cybercriminals. Additionally, this country loses hundreds of billions annually due to stolen intellectual property.
With so much money at stake, perhaps it’s little wonder that the cybersecurity industry…
Remote storage and other internet-enabled technologies can create unique ethical quandaries for lawyers. With changes to ethics rules reflecting technology’s role in the profession, many find the prevailing reasonableness standard difficult to interpret.
With a funeral home in ashes and an insurance company refusing to pay benefits, the last thing you’d expect to hear about is online security and the cloud.
But that’s exactly what happened in 2014 when the Holding Funeral Home lost a building in Castlewood, Virginia, to a fire and…
Tashea’s 20-minute conversation with with business podcaster Ryn Melberg covers stories that Tashea has written, like how law firms are using tabletop simulations to assess the…
Mary Ellen Egan
Cyberattacks are on the rise, both in the number of incidents and the costs associated with the attacks. Hackers use the same methods regardless of firm size or data collected.
Last March, attorney Jeffrey Wicks was being held at digital gunpoint. Wicks—head of a small firm handling criminal defense and civil and family law cases in Rochester, New York—was being extorted by cybercriminals who were holding his firm’s data for ransom.
Wicks had apparently opened an email attachment that locked…
The Securities and Exchange Commission released new guidance calling for public companies to be more transparent regarding their cybersecurity risks—both before and after an attack.
“[T]he Commission believes that it is critical that public companies take all required actions to inform investors about material cybersecurity risks and incidents in…
Released Feb. 8, the report, titled “The Shifting Cybersecurity Landscape: How CISOs and Security Leaders Are Managing Evolving Global Risks to Safeguard Data,” explores the role…
As technology evolves, threats and vulnerabilities evolve, too. To not be caught on the back foot, firms are using simulations to find vulnerabilities and build or bolster their cybersecurity systems, as well as cultivating firmwide culture change to train employees.
Last fall, MacKenzie Dunham was a law student working at a personal injury firm in Houston when one of the firm’s two partners called the office to say their car had been broken into and he would not make it in.
Not worried, the partner mentioned that among his…