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Jan 14, 2025 | 
attorneyatwork.com | Jay Harrington |Michael C. Maschke |Sharon Nelson |John W. Simek
In a never-ending game of cat and mouse, cybersecurity software and hardware companies are using AI to help combat the world’s increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks. It’s a modern-day version of who can one-up the other: cyberattackers or cybersecurity companies. Table of contentsGenAI ExplainedMuch has been written about artificial intelligence over the past few years, together with insight into how it will impact and transform the world for better or worse, including the legal sector.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
abovethelaw.com | Michael C. Maschke |Sharon Nelson |John W. Simek
Ed. note: This is the latest in the article series, Cybersecurity: Tips From the Trenches, by our friends at Sensei Enterprises, a boutique provider of IT, cybersecurity, and digital forensics services. As we begin 2025, attorneys hope the new year brings them happiness, health, and prosperity. One situation every law firm wants to avoid this upcoming year is a cyber incident or, worse, a data breach.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
abovethelaw.com | Sharon Nelson |John W. Simek |Michael C. Maschke
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
attorneyatwork.com | Jay Harrington |Michael C. Maschke |Sharon Nelson |John W. Simek
Employees are a factor in more than 80% of successful cyberattacks. That means it’s critical to implement law firm cybersecurity awareness training for your employees. With the continuing rise in cybersecurity attacks, it is more critical than ever to implement effective risk mitigation strategies to enhance your firm’s security posture and protect confidential data — and that is impossible to do without educating your employees. Employees are a factor in more than 80% of successful cyberattacks.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
attorneyatwork.com | Jay Harrington |Michael C. Maschke |Sharon Nelson |John W. Simek
The phrase “battening down the hatches” takes on more urgency as state after state passes privacy laws affecting law firms. It’s been a long while since law firms got used to data breach laws and the required notifications — all 50 states have such laws. But now, privacy laws, a relatively new development, are fast becoming another concern for law firms. “Battening down the hatches” is taking on a new urgency as state after state passes a privacy law.
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May 17, 2024 | 
abovethelaw.com | Sharon Nelson |John W. Simek |Michael C. Maschke |Jeremy Barker
Editor’s note: This is an installment in the “Reference Manual of Legal Tech Lists Vol. II,” an eBook set for release this summer. It’s been a very bad year for law firms. Not only were many law firms breached — and some from BigLaw — but the class action attorneys also have apparently discovered there is money to be made from class action lawsuits against breached law firms.
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May 7, 2024 | 
abovethelaw.com | Sharon Nelson |John W. Simek |Michael C. Maschke |Brian Dalton
Ed. note: This is the latest in the article series, Cybersecurity: Tips From the Trenches, by our friends at Sensei Enterprises, a boutique provider of IT, cybersecurity, and digital forensics services. With amazing speed, we’ve become a very mobile society. Mobile phones are the main computing device for most people. To support a mobile environment, cloud services are growing by leaps and bounds.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
attorneyatwork.com | Jay Harrington |Michael C. Maschke |Sharon Nelson |John W. Simek
SIEMs are the best way to strengthen a law firm’s cybersecurity. It isn’t easy to explain it simply, but here we go. SIEM — pronounced “sim” — is an acronym for “security information and event management.” In the simplest terms, it is a security solution that detects threat activities before your law firm is significantly impacted. SIEMs can detect, analyze and, most importantly, respond to security issues.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
legaltechmonitor.com | Sharon Nelson |John W. Simek |Michael C. Maschke
Sixty-nine percent of organizations were infected by ransomware. It remains a plague. The post Cybersecurity Statistics In 2024: Is Your Law Firm Protected? appeared first on Above the Law.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
legaltechmonitor.com | Sharon Nelson |John W. Simek |Michael C. Maschke
No law firm in today’s legal environment can escape having to report a breach, so be prepared. The post Cybersecurity Assessments For Law Firms: How Not To Screw Them Up appeared first on Above the Law.
