How scared should we be of data breaches? Law firm breaches don't seem to make the news, but I've heard stats that are fairly alarming

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Let me put it this way: how would you feel calling a client to let them know that their privileged documents were being held hostage by a hacker in some weird corner of the world? Or leaked all over the internet

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It's certainly a major, major concern.

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Assuming your firm, like mine, has implemented serious information security measures driven, in large part, by client demands, you should be very focused on learning, understanding, and complying with IS policies. Our ethical duty of competence includes understanding technology as it affects client confidences. So, yeah, it’s a big deal.

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Google DLA Piper cyber attack. Happened back in 2017. DLA wasn’t even a target, it just got caught up in a worldwide ransomware virus that went rogue.

Breaches will occur. Most breaches occur through 3rd parties. Hopefully one of privacy/cyber attorneys at your firm is monitoring a compliance plan to make sure you’ve done your due diligence and regularly conducts audits.

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