For e-discovery counsel putting safeguards around data movement should be a priority—but all too often, it’s an afterthought.
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Why Are Lawyers So Terrible At Cybersecurity?
Let us count the ways in which lawyers are terrible at cybersecurity – and then talk about the new ABA resolution on cybersecurity.
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Cybersecurity Litigation Is Booming
Cyber attacks are excellent fodder for future litigation.
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Cybersecurity in the Remote Work Era: AI, Employees and an Integrated Defense – With SessionGuardian’s Jordan Ellington and Oren Leib, and Katten’s Trisha Sircar (TGIR Ep. 211)
In this episode of The Geek in Review podcast, host Marlene Gebauer and co-host Greg Lambert discuss cybersecurity challenges with guests Jordan Ellington, founder of SessionGuardian, Oren Leib, Vice President of Growth and Partnership at SessionGuardian, and Trisha Sircar, partner and chief privacy officer at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP.
Ellington explains that the impetus for creating
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If Kirkland & Ellis Can't Avoid Cyberattacks, Who Can?
Kirkland and Am Law 50 peers K&L Gates and Proskauer Rose are among the latest victims of a sweeping cyber breach. “It proves that nobody is immune,” said Zach Olsen, president of communications firm Infinite Global.
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UK and French Intelligence Agencies Issue Cybersecurity Warning to Law Firms
The publication of the reports coincides with a growing number of law firms continue to come forward with reports of cyber attacks and data breaches.
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Research Unearths an Ugly Truth: Lawyers Are Undermining Cybersecurity
“There have been a string of opinions that have put lawyers in a position where if they were to do their job competently they would essentially be putting their clients at risk because they would be creating documents that can be used in litigation or an investigatory proceeding,” said David Saunders, a partner at McDermott Will & Emery.
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Privacy and Cybersecurity Risks in the Metaverse: 5 Steps to Protect Your Data
To succeed in the metaverse, businesses must consider how they will collect, use and manage data as they enter this uncharted virtual territory.
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ABA Says Its Network Hacked; User Names and Hashed Passwords Possibly Accessed
The American Bar Association said last night that an unauthorized hacker gained access to the ABA network and may have acquired usernames and salted and hashed passwords that members would have used to access a prior version of the website.
In a statement, the ABA said:
“On March 17, 2023, the ABA observed unusual activity on its network. The association
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9 Recent Developments That Changed the Data Privacy Landscape
New technologies, new laws and new regulations have shifted data privacy substantially just within the last few months.
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Collaborative Cybersecurity: Working Across Legal and Information Security for Better Outcomes
The costs of failing to collaborate can be high: compliance failures, often the ambit of the legal/compliance team, add significantly to the costs of a data breach.
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Leadership Blaming Working From Home For Its Own Data Privacy Failures
Get ready for executives to blame the next big cyberattack on all you pesky kids working from home.
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Use With Caution: ChatGPT's Cyberrisks Are Just Coming Into Focus
“You actually have no assurance at any point that you can trust it,” warned David Carvalho, co-founder and CEO of Naoris Protocol.
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Cybersecurity Incident Shuts Down Biglaw Network
Fire up your personal email accounts!
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APIs Can Be Blind Spot in Legal Teams' Data Security, Governance Plans
While application programming interfaces (APIs) are nothing new to the legal industry, many organizations’ information security controls may not account for them as much as they should.
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