You don’t often read about thieves breaking into the offices of a law firm and making off with boxes of case files. Thanks to the enormous progress and investment firms have made in physical security—including video monitoring, thumbprint readers and the like—those kinds of break-ins have been largely relegated to the past.

Today, of course, the biggest security threat facing law firms is in cyberspace. As firms have pushed to digitize client records, nefarious actors are taking advantage of the woefully lax online security at some law firms, and they’re having a field day siphoning off confidential client records, intellectual property and market-moving information.

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