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Law Firm Security Q&A
With the Appleby data breach still top of mind of many law firm and legal department professionals, cybersecurity has become a major area of concern. To learn more about how law firms can protect themselves against cyber attacks and data breaches, I sat down with Laurie Fischer, managing director at HBR Consulting. Fischer leads the Information Governance practice at HBR, where she helps address the increasingly complex and demanding regulatory and technological challenges of today's information management environment. She has over 25 years of consulting experience partnering with clients of all industries and sizes to help them achieve their enterprise-wide and governance objectives.
Law firms are now regularly targeted by cyber criminals, most recently Appleby. Are these attacks designed to obtain specific types of information? What and why?
By their very nature, law firms maintain a higher percentage of sensitive, confidential and personal data than other industries. Most of their data also falls under attorney-client privilege, which allows clients to share highly confidential information with their attorneys without fear of it being disclosed. Law firms maintain confidential data and often sensitive information on everything from litigation case files to merger and acquisition due diligence and negotiations — and even high-profile divorce cases. This may include client Social Security numbers, medical records, intellectual property, sensitive tax and financial information, such as information on offshore transactions, as demonstrated in the Appleby case. The data maintained by a law firm is a cyber-criminal's dream! And, having access to this data can result in extortion, ransoms and exposure of highly personal and reputation-damaging information.
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