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Legal firms need cybersecurity expertise to proactively detect, disrupt and remediate cyber threats before they become business disrupting events.

The complicated web of relationships between major industries, governments and individuals in power positions, paired with sensitive information and multiple points of entry, means inadequate security measures will have costly consequences.

Cybercriminals are targeting legal firms to:

  • Profit from stolen information
  • Use law firms to reach their client data
  • Publicly disrupt operations for the purpose of extortion
  • Retaliate for representation of clients

Legal Industry Threat Intelligence Report

Protecting Your Law Firm’s Data, Clients, and Reputation

Law firms have access to confidential client information, making them a prime target for threat actors looking to extort payments, steal and sell sensitive data, or retaliate for client representation. In recent years, the legal industry rapidly adopted digital technologies. These vast amounts of digitized client data are centrally stored in document control systems, making it easier for threat actors to conduct highly targeted attacks or opportunistic campaigns.

Our researchers discovered that cyberattacks targeting law firms progress to the intrusion phase more quickly, suggesting that threat actors prioritize establishing footholds in the legal sector compared to other industries. To prevent operational disruption and maintain your reputation, your firm needs to develop a foundation of cyber resilience that includes prioritizing employee security awareness, hardening cybersecurity defenses, and managing trusted relationships with third-party and supply chain partners.

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In this threat intelligence report, we share:

  • The most common cyber threats detected across our global legal customer base
  • Research from eSentire’s Threat Response Unit (TRU) about the most impactful cyber threats (e.g., GootLoader, Emotet, Qakbot, etc.) and tactics used to target law firms
  • Recommendations on how your firm can build cyber resilience and reduce the risk of downtime and revenue disruption.
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Legal Threat Summit

Securing Your Law Firm With Limited Resources

For decades, law firms have been subject to sophisticated cyberattacks that lead to massive ransomware outages, public exposure, crippling reputational damage, and massive financial loss. In fact, the resulting damage and business disruption can cost upward of $225K per day. Unfortunately, many law firms lack the necessary in-house resources and expertise to detect and contain cyber threats.

In this Legal Industry Threat Summit, we share expert insights on the latest cyber threats targeting the legal industry, main legal cybersecurity challenges, and how security leaders can defend their organizations with limited resources. The threat summit features:

  • A Legal Industry Threat Summit
    Presented by Joe Stewart, Principal Security Researcher, and Keegan Keplinger, Sr. Threat Intelligence Researcher, from eSentire’s Threat Response Unit (TRU)
  • A Fireside Chat with Andrea Markstrom, Chief Information Officer, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, and Christopher Meinders, Senior Manager, Information Security, Baker Botts
    Hosted by Erin McLean, Chief Marketing Officer, eSentire

How eSentire Protects Legal Firms

Access to Confidential Information

Meeting Bar Requirements

Operational Disruption

Avoiding Regulatory Violations

KEY INDUSTRY CHALLENGES

Access to Confidential Information

HOW ESENTIRE MANAGED DETECTION & RESPONSE HELPS

Our 24/7 Elite Threat Hunters and SOC Cyber Analysts actively hunt for threats across your environment. We detect intrusions and contain cyber attacks before data can be exfiltrated.

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Meeting Bar Requirements

HOW ESENTIRE MANAGED DETECTION & RESPONSE HELPS

eSentire offers CLE-accredited user awareness training and risk management assessments.

KEY INDUSTRY CHALLENGES

Operational Disruption

HOW ESENTIRE MANAGED DETECTION & RESPONSE HELPS

With our 24/7 Multi-Signal MDR service, we detect malicious administrative activity through remote access tools and stop intrusions before they can deploy malware throughout your firm’s environment.

KEY INDUSTRY CHALLENGES

Avoiding Regulatory Violations

HOW ESENTIRE MANAGED DETECTION & RESPONSE HELPS

Our SOC leverages proven run books which include detectors mapped to requirements and reporting measures for GLBA, SOX, NYCRR, PCI, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA as well as state-level regulations.

Legal Firm Cybersecurity FAQ

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Legal Firm Cybersecurity FAQ

What is a legal cybersecurity program?

Legal firms need cybersecurity expertise to proactively detect, disrupt and remediate cyber threats before they become business disrupting events.

Why is legal cybersecurity important?

Your law firm has unparalleled access to sensitive client information, making it a prime target for cybercriminals. As a result, you are likely to be targeted with some of the most sophisticated cyber threats that can cause critical service disruption and damage your firm’s reputation.

The complicated web of relationships between major industries, governments and individuals in power positions, paired with sensitive information and multiple points of entrance, means inadequate legal cybersecurity measures will have costly consequences for your firm. To protect your firm’s business, you need a robust cybersecurity plan and the ability to proactively detect, disrupt and remediate cyber threats.

How does eSentire protect legal firms?

At eSentire, we protect legal firms from business disruption through our 24/7 MDR service by:

  • Protecting access to confidential information by detecting intrusions and containing cyberattacks before data can be exfiltrated
  • Helping your business met bar requirements with CLE-accreted user awareness training and risk management assessments
  • Preventing operational disruption by detecting malicious administration activity through remote access tools and stopping intrusions before they can deploy malware
  • Avoiding regulatory violations by helping you achieve and maintain compliance with the required frameworks

Contact us to learn how we can help build your legal cybersecurity program.

REPORT

Gootloader Unloaded: Proactive Defense Against a Growing Cyber Threat

Read this report to learn how eSentire’s Threat Response Unit (TRU) is protecting legal professionals by shutting down the Gootloader attacks using the threat actor’s own tactics against them.

eSentire Legal Industry Cybersecurity Services

At eSentire, we go beyond the market’s capability in threat response. eSentire’s multi-signal MDR approach ingests endpoint, network, log, cloud, asset and vulnerability data that enables complete attack surface visibility. Enriched detections from the eSentire Threat Response Unit are applied to captured data identifying known & unknown threats including suspicious activity and zero-day attacks. With two 24/7 Security Operations Centers staffed with cyber experts and Elite Threat Hunters, an industry-leading XDR Cloud Platform, and refined security operations processes, eSentire can detect and respond to cyber threats with a Mean Time to Contain of 15 minutes.

Managed Detection & Response

We deliver Response + Remediation you can trust. By combining our cutting-edge XDR platform, 24/7 SOC support, around the clock threat hunting and security operations leadership, we hunt and stop known & unknown threats before they disrupt your business.

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Exposure Management Services

Strategic services including Vulnerability Management, Managed Phishing and Security Awareness Training to identify gaps, build defensive strategies, operationalize risk mitigation and continuously advance your security program.

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Digital Forensics and Incident Response

Battle-tested Incident Commander level expertise, crime scene reconstruction and digital forensics investigations that can bear scrutiny in a court of law. The world’s fastest threat suppression guarantee with a 4-hour SLA available with our IR Retainer.

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The nice thing with eSentire is that they’re always looking at my network, my environment, and everything that’s coming through. I can sleep at night. I don’t need to have a 24/7 SOC. I know that my network is being looked at and if they see something that they deem to be a threat, they can prevent it, or block it and stop it, and get a hold of my team if needed.

Leon Goldstein

Chief Information Officer, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP

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I would recommend eSentire without hesitation to a peer and I have done this numerous times in the past.

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