Description
Protecting the Attorney-Client Relationship in the Digital Age
Trust, confidentiality & accountability have always formed the basis of the relationship between attorneys and their clients.
Increasingly, hackers have been drawn to law firms because of the massive amounts of valuable documents, technical secrets, financing information, and personal histories of clients. Data breaches, ransomware attacks, and other security incidents are at an all-time high and expected to increase. In addition, clients, vendors and insurance agencies are asking about cyber security practices via security questionnaires.
Cyber security has become a necessity of law firm operations. Law firms are expected to:
-Ensure internal and external security requirements are met
-Maintain a high level of information privacy & security
-Enable attorneys to efficiently and effectively serve clients in a secure manner
How do you do all this while still safeguarding the firm’s reputation and preserving your clients’ trust?
Join our experts for a 1-hour session as they take a close look into critical cyber security considerations for law firms of all sizes. Learn from experts on how to best protect your firm from both a policy and technology perspective. Topics they’ll touch on include:
-Cyber insurance
-Risk assessment and internal controls
-Robust cyber security compliance program
-Crisis response plan for cyberattacks
-Key technologies for law firms to consider
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Outline:
Since clients entrust lawyers with so much of their sensitive data, law firms make prime targets for cybercrime. According to the 2019 ABA Cybersecurity Tech Report, 26% of law firms experienced a form of data breach.
So how do law firms mitigate their risk of data breaches and keep clients’ data as secure as possible? And with technology constantly evolving, where do you start?
This session reviews some of the fundamentals of law firm security in 2021 by looking at best practices for keeping a firm’s data secure and discussing technologies that law firms can consider implementing.
Speaker
Edward Serafin III is the Chief Security Architect at Micro Strategies. In his role, he is responsible for Micro Strategies’ security as well as assisting Micro Strategies’ customers with incident response & investigations, insider threat hunting & investigations, cyber security architecture, open source intelligence (OSINT) collection, cyber security research, penetration testing & RT/BT operations , security operations, security policies, procedures, & governance, and security awareness & operations training.
Throughout his career, Edward has worked in many capacities including security analysis, engineering, cyber intelligence and penetration testing.
Prior to joining Micro Strategies, Edward was employed by Telcordia Technologies, Inc. dba iconectiv as their Corporate SOC Director. In this role, he designed and built iconectiv’s corporate security operations center and instituted other cybersecurity initiatives that are still leveraged by iconectiv today. Edward received iconectiv’s ACE Award for his contributions to the iconectiv NPAC information security program which included the creation of the iconectiv NPAC SOC.
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