Law Practice Management and Technology
The Bottom Line Volume 37, No 1 February 2016
Content
- Analytics Made Easy: Lawyer-Friendly Technology for Better eDiscovery
- Message from the Chair
- Message from the Editors
- Regular Associate Evaluations Promote Professional Development
- Strategies to Improve Law Firm Collections and Cash Flow
- The Admin’s Guide to Organizing Digital Files
- MCLE Self-Study Article A Hidden Insider Threat: Exposing Visual Hackers
MCLE Self-Study Article A Hidden Insider Threat: Exposing Visual Hackers
By Mari J. Frank, Esq., CIPP
When we think of hackers breaching systems and stealing information from our law firms or our clientsâ businesses, we donât usually suspect trusted employees as the guilty parties.
But insider threats are in fact a very real and growing challenge. Security services provider SANS Institute surveyed nearly 800 IT and security professionals across multiple industries and found that 74 percent of respondents were concerned about negligent or malicious employees who might be insider threats, while 34 percent said they have experienced an insider incident or attack.1
Unscrupulous insiders employ alternate approaches to traditional hacking methods to gain access to networks and sensitive information. And itâs this craftiness that makes them such a threat to our firms and our clientsâ organizations. Businesses and law firms are often so focused on technology vulnerabilities that they overlook risks from the human factor. Indeed, a Crowd Research Partners survey of more than 500 cybersecurity professionals found that 62 percent of respondents said insider attacks are more difficult to detect and prevent than external cyberattacks.2