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- Network Monitoring Services for Law Firms | Frontline Managed Services
- Legal Cybersecurity: How to Protect Your Firm Against Rising Threats
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- Privacy Policy
- Safeguard Your Law Firm: Key Steps for Law Firms to Implement and Maintain Effective Security Policies
- Skillbuilder
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- #5823 (no title)
- 4 Ways Law Firms are Saving Billable Time and Increasing Cash Flow Through Automation
- 8 Critical Aspects of Cybersecurity Training for New Law Firm Employees
- 8 Phishing Strategies Hackers Use to Infiltrate Your Law Firm
- Effective eBilling Solutions for Law Firms
- Increase Profitability and Free Up Billable Time by Optimizing Your Cash Cycle
- Is Your Backup Protecting Your Firm’s Data? 4 Critical Aspects of a Successful Disaster Recovery Plan
- Looking Ahead While Looking Back: Best Practices Road Map for A/R in 2023
- Maintaining A/R Stability During Crisis Instability
- Mobile Devices & Social Media – Discovery Considerations for ESI Preservations
- Optimizing the Client Intake to Cash Process: Best Practices to Maximize Firm Profits
- People, Process, and Technology in a Work from Home Environment
- Ransomware Realities
- Secure Your Firm’s Data
- Security Resource Constraint – A Modern Problem for Legal Presented by Frontline Managed Services & Arctic Wolf
- Virtual Lunch & Learn: Top Tools Law Firms Can Leverage to Work Seamlessly From Anywhere
3 Cybersecurity Recommendations for Law Firm Employees
1. Understand the Common Phishing Schemes
- Use of threats or a sense of urgency
- Suspicious attachments
- Poor grammar or misspellings
- Pop-up windows or valuable offers with little or no cost
- Inconsistencies in email addresses or domain names given that 90% of data breaches are caused by phishing emails, new associates should be trained on how to spot and report these attacks.
Given that 90% of data breaches are caused by phishing emails, new associates should be trained on how to spot and report these attacks.
2. Ensure Multifactor Authentication Is Enabled
Law firms have access to significant amounts of sensitive client data, which makes multiple security layers critical. Multifactor Authentication (MFA) provides an extra layer of security for law firms by requiring identity verification in addition to a secure password. Instead of associates working behind a locked door, for example, they’re working behind a locked door that also requires thumbprint analysis. MFA also acts as a deterrent to hackers and protects both remote and in-office teams against basic attacks like email phishing and more complex attacks
3. Create a Culture of Safety From Day One
A law firm’s security is only as strong as its weakest link. Whether an employee is new or tenured, security is the responsibility of everyone in the firm. All firm employees must assume they are targets and stay vigilant for suspicious emails.
If an employee receives or clicks on an email and later realizes it could potentially be a phishing attack, it is critical to report it immediately. It is likely that others were attacked as well. Bottom line: If you see something, say something.
Conduct cybersecurity training regularly and use these sessions as opportunities to both educate employees on new attack methods and remind them of the policies and procedures to follow if they experience an attempted attack. Investing in continuous cybersecurity training not only protects firms from future attacks but helps empower a law firm’s workforce, builds client trust by thoroughly protecting data, and saves significant time and money that’s lost when breaches are successful. Phishing schemes are expected to continue increasing exponentially. By training employees to recognize and report phishing and cyber-attacks, they become the first line of defense to protect firm and client data.
Day one cybersecurity training for new associates and employees is critical because hackers are targeting new hires from day one.
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Afton Clark has deep expertise in legal IT and cybersecurity and serves as IT & Cybersecurity Marketing and Growth Manager at Frontline Managed Services