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Just after the school year commenced, Steve Bradshaw, superintendent of the Columbia Falls, Montana, schools got a menacing text from a number he didn’t recognize. The cyber thug behind the message made a myriad of threats – including physical harm to district students and staff and releasing their personal information – unless a ransom was paid in Bitcoin. The community was thrust into a panic, and the district closed its 30 schools for three days.  Was this response warranted or appropriate?

 

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Did you know that this month is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month? 

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by Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Story republished from The Conversation.

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Many thanks to our friends at iManage for sharing this blog post. 

 

by Aaron Rangel, Director Product Marketing, iManage

 

The secret is out: professional services firms make attractive targets because they have large volumes of privileged client information. High profile cyber-attacks such as the Panama Papers incident have made information security a top priority at the C-level executive suite.

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Our partners at SentinelOne recently reported that 50 percent of organizations have been victim to cyberattacks. Eighty-five percent of those said they had been attacked three or more times.

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When it comes to information security there is no silver bullet to stop attackers from infiltrating your firm. The “defense-in-depth” approach to information security is simple: add many layers of protection between yourself and the outside world. Hardening your computer is exactly what it sounds like, adding security measures to increase the difficulty of an attacker compromising your system. Below you will find a checklist of system hardening best practices, each of these are easy to implement and are critical in protecting your computer.

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Law firms need to know where their intellectual property is at all times. They also need the ability to track who has accessed what data from where and what they did to it. Most important, they need the ability to lockdown information that should never leave the firm’s physical or digital walls.

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