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European law fi rms have become much more cyber-savvy, as clients want them to be fully digitally-aware, and threats target their data.
CYBER SECURITY CONTINUES TO BE A PRE-EMINENT CONCERN TO FOR SENIOR MANAGEMENT IN THE legal sector: targeted attacks on companies that provide legal services have risen over the past 18 months, according to the PwC Law Firms’ Survey 2018. While in 2017 33% of fi rms reported a security incident related to their own staff where there had been a loss or leakage of confi dential information, this increased to 46% in 2018. ‘As law fi rms hold large volumes of client monies and confi dential information, they remain a greater target from external threats,’ the report warns. Law fi rms certainly hold much sensitive client information, and
are key enablers in commercial and business transactions, such as mergers and acquisitions: that’s highly valuable data that cyber criminals and state-sponsored threat agents are obviously keen to access, appropriate, and act upon to their advantage.
RISK BEWARE THE UNSECURED WORKPLACE APPLICANCE
“Within the offi ce, printers and scanners are often overlooked as devices that can threaten cyber security. These devices store and process data but are often forgotten about,” explains Randhir
Shinde, CEO at Galaxkey (writing for Lawyer Monthly). “Due to the nature of their work, law fi rms use such devices for printing and scanning
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