Cybersecurity Weaknesses And How To Protect Your Organization

Introduction

What makes law firms different from any other organisations and attractive to cyber-attackers is the legal rules that require maximum confidentiality between attorney and client. Law firms hold a great deal of data which has huge potential value, particularly in the wrong hands. This could be commercially confidential information concerning deals or negotiations, companies' vital private data or simply sensitive information that clients prefer to keep out of the public domain. One of the examples we recently witnessed is the leak of 11.5 million files from the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca. The leak uncovered secret offshore deals and vast loans exposing offshore companies and the involvement of 128 politicians and public officials around the world.