Cybersecurity protection is like health insurance: You don’t miss it until you need it. By then, it’s too late.

Internet thieves are attacking Georgia’s legal community. On Jan. 17, the Daily Report described how an imposter tricked an insurance company into depositing over $3 million into the wrong lawyer’s bank account by spoofing the policyholder’s email address. Over the past six months, the personal injury firm where I practice, Butler Tobin, has been the subject of a half-dozen attacks targeted specifically at our six-person firm—and two of them nearly succeeded.