Marsh issue cyber alert… - Legal Practitioners' Liability Committee

Marsh have reported seeing an increase in cyber-attacks on law firms over the past 3 months.

In a recent client alert aimed raising awareness in the sector, Marsh Managing Principal - Cyber, Samuel Rogers, discusses the types of incidents they are seeing, and makes recommendations for steps towards heightened security.

For more information about how to make your firm cybersafe, LPLC's Cyber Security Guide for Lawyers has recently been updated and is full of basic and practical information to help protect your firm and your clients.

LPLC also have a number of additional cyber security articles, videos, checklists and practitioner resources available in the cyber security section of this website.

Cyber security

Cyber-crime is a growing risk to law firms of all sizes as lawyers and the legal profession are increasingly becoming targets of cyber-criminals. Having strategies, policies and processes to boost a firm’s cyber-security is an essential part of practice management. LPLC provides a range of information and resources to support practices to do so.

Cyber Security Guide for Lawyers

LPLC has produced a guide full of practical information to help lawyers be cybersafe. The guide outlines 5 key areas of focus and explains why each is important to be included in cybersafe strategies for law practices. For each key area the guide provides a checklist of practical steps to take to secure any legal practice.

Enable multi-factor authentication – a simple thing that could save you

This article, produced for Australian Cyber Week 2020, covers the basics of multi-factor authentication and why it should be implemented in every Australian law firm.

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