Providing an adequate level of IT assurance for legal industry leaders has become a high-profile challenge, as firms of all sizes find themselves on the front lines of the global ransomware war.

Just last month, cyber hackers made a $42 million ransomware demand to a high-profile celebrity law firm in New York, and unfortunately these types of attacks are becoming more common. To compound this problem, the industry is faced with increasingly distributed IT systems, as cloud infrastructure, hosted applications, and outsourced services blur the boundaries between your firm and the rest of the world. So let’s define the issues and discuss actionable steps all legal industry leaders can oversee to provide effective IT assurance activities that will help keep your firm from becoming the next victim.