It seems that every week, more corporations are releasing news that they were hacked. Data breaches can affect thousands of people and severely hurt a business. While a law firm may not have the personal information of millions of people, the information that can be stolen can be equally, if not more, detrimental.
Last year, the International Legal Technology Association conducted a survey and came to some scary conclusions. In 2013, 76 percent of law firms did not sue or require two factor authentications, 72 percent did not issue encrypted USB drives and 64 percent do not automatically encrypt content-based emails. Read more…