Law Offices

Like other businesses in today’s connected world, law offices and legal firms are facing critical cybersecurity challenges that expose organizations to data breaches. The following is a summarized list of these challenges:

The number of firms experiencing data breaches increases every year.
The larger the firm is, the less likely it is aware it has experienced a data breach.
The cost to the firm (breach notification, damage to reputation, fines and penalties, hardware/software replacement) has grown from year to year.

Increasingly, lawyers and law offices are ethically obligated and expected to protect the information of their customers and employees.

Surveillent for Law Offices was built to address these specific cybersecurity challenges and obligations.

Why Surveillent Cyber for Law Offices

Ethical and Legal Obligations

The ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility has released a Formal Opinion called “Lawyers’ Obligations After an Electronic Data Breach or Cyberattack” (October 17, 2018) that asserts “the potential for an ethical violation occurs when a lawyer does not undertake reasonable efforts to avoid data loss or to detect cyber-intrusion, and that lack of reasonable effort is the cause of the breach.”

State Privacy & Data Protection Laws

There is a growth in the number of state privacy & data protection legislation protecting the rights of consumers and businesses.

Cybersecurity Insurance

The costs of responding to a data breach or ransomware attack is driving the cost of cyber security insurance. The insurance companies are requiring companies to meet additional requirements for them to cover the policy.

It all starts with Surveillent Core

Our approach to securing law firms begins with protecting endpoints and email using Surveillent Core. Our next steps are to protect the law firm’s business processes, data flows, and business operations using Surveillent Add-ons. Our next phase is to address and protect needs of law firms and legal practices such as Matters or Case Management and eDiscovery across business applications are the final steps of our approach with law firms.

Surveillent Cyber Legal Applications

We leverage Microsoft 365 to provide the foundational technologies for calendaring, email, and file sharing addressing specific needs of law firms and legal teams.