Cyber Threats and Risk: What Smaller Firms Need to Know | Law Practice Today

Cyber Threats and Risk: What Smaller Firms Need to Know | Law Practice Today

Recent years have seen an explosive increase in cyberattacks against organizations, and law firms are no exception. Individual lawyers have become targets as well. This is an especially vexing problem for practitioners, given their ethical and professional obligations to protect client confidentiality — including data — and to stay up to date and competent on technology. Smaller firms and solo practitioners can be particularly vulnerable without an institutional IT infrastructure in place to monitor threats.   

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