Legal IT Support

A law firm's files are its practice. Case documents, discovery, client communications and work product all carry confidentiality requirements, and courts do not accept technology failure as a reason to miss a deadline.

What we see most often is a firm that has grown past whatever arrangement it started with. Documents in several places, a server nobody has patched, remote access that was set up quickly during a crisis and never revisited. The fix is not dramatic, but it does have to be deliberate.

Wire fraud is the live threat

For firms handling real estate, settlement or escrow work, the specific risk is a fraudulent email redirecting funds. It usually follows a compromised mailbox, sometimes the client's rather than the firm's, and the message arrives at exactly the right moment in the transaction because the attacker has been reading the thread.

Defending against it takes both halves: the technical controls that make mailbox compromise hard, and a written verification procedure for any change to payment details that does not rely on email. We put both in, because either one alone has been shown not to be enough.