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7 Tips to Make a Cyber Attack Comeback

By Jeff Ton
August 01, 2017

A law firm's cybersecurity strategy depends upon fully monitoring and responding to a diverse threat landscape — but this is no easy feat, with daily projects and additional demands that tend to stretch IT resources. While day-to-day maintenance tasks and insider risk protocols are important for long-term protection from different types of cybersecurity threats, it's important to acknowledge that no solution is 100% effective. No matter how much money a firm is currently investing in cybersecurity, the reality is that it only takes one wrong click for a breach to occur.

Even the largest and most prestigious firms with the best-of cybersecurity solutions are no longer immune to intrusions. For example, DLA Piper was recently struck with ransomware, which affected computers and phones across the firm. Cybercriminals are recognizing the pivotal role law firms play in housing sensitive client information for legal proceedings, and because of this they have begun to target the legal industry with unprecedented force.

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