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Industry Vendors Exploited Via Industry-Wide Cyber Attacks

<b><i>How to Protect Your Firm from Vendor Risks</b></i><p>The legal industry is still lulled into a false sense of security, mistakenly assuming that they are immune to a significant IT business outage, and that those unfortunate firms affected by cybercriminals were somehow lacking in adequate cybersecurity presages. That's simply not true. Even Achilles had a weak spot.

7 minute read September 02, 2017 at 12:10 AM
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Mark Sangster
Industry Vendors Exploited Via Industry-Wide Cyber Attacks

The top recommendation I always make when it comes to protecting against top cybersecurity attacks, like ransomware, is to back up your data and test your backups.

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