Your law firm is a gold mine of information and everyone knows it. Cybercrime and cyber-espionage is at an all-time high, and the threats grow greater each day. As an attorney, you deal with confidential and sensitive information on a daily basis. While having access to such information during the course of everyday business is normal, sometimes people forget that there is an inherent duty to protect that data.
As you already know, there are many different types of law practices. Each field of law deals with its own type of sensitive information. For example, a personal injury attorney has access to data that can be classified as protected health information (PHI) and/or personal identifiable information (PII). Business and corporate lawyers have access to an entirely different set of information. That information can be about the mergers, acquisitions or sellouts of publicly held companies. Yet the common trait among each dataset is that it can be used by a third party for financial gain. The ability to make money from that information is exactly what makes it a target for outsiders.
