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Three Lessons for a Proactive Approach To Cybersecurity

By Jason Straight
August 02, 2015

Do you know where your client's or organization's data is? It's not a rhetorical question ' it's a serious issue that should be at the core of any cybersecurity assessment. Many IT and security departments may have all sorts of sophisticated tools and processes for securing data in-house, but what about service providers who have access to the network? What about outside law firms handling the data on their own premises or in the cloud? And what about the vendors that those firms use?

Cybersecurity has been elevated to a top priority in today's corporate boardrooms, as news of major data breaches has become commonplace over the last few years. The scope of some of those breaches has reached catastrophic proportions, and recent discoveries illustrate the systematic approach of hackers' third-party vendor attack strategy.

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