Cybersecurity Law & Strategy

As quantum machines become more powerful, today’s uncrackable encryption schemes may become trivial to break. Opinions vary as to how soon that moment, so-called “Q Day,” will arrive, but the threat is real.

Not long ago, the operative question in cybersecurity planning was whether organizations needed to plan for AI-assisted attacks. Five national cybersecurity agencies have now answered that question, on the record, with a timeline measured in months, not years.

Legal leaders should be asking themselves if AI is making legal a more effective business partner. The legal teams pulling ahead aren’t necessarily those deploying the most AI. They’re the ones using it to remove friction across the business in ways everyone can see.

Concluding that AI will eliminate the attorney reviewer, or even the broader document review market, misses a much larger change underway. The question is not simply how many people it takes to analyze a million documents. The more interesting question is: What happens when analyzing information becomes dramatically less expensive?

How do you communicate when you know the harm before you know its cause? For law firms, it comes up both when advising a client and when explaining an incident of their own.