The coronavirus has already caused major disruptions worldwide and these disruptions figure to increase both in number and severity over the coming months. As institutions struggle to deal with canceled educational activities, quarantines and [...]
February and March 2020 will be remembered as closing months in most of the country’s education systems. Schools from the United States are also not spared from the global lockdown. World bank has noted “the COVID-19 pandemic is causing more [...]
The recent attack on a Dutch university demonstrates much of what IT organizations shouldn’t do to avoid an attack. According to Michiel Borgers, Chief Information Officer at Maastricht University, their network was the target of a [...]
In November 2019, New Jersey’s Livingston was forced to open school on a two-hour delay as they worked to wrestle control of their systems back from a ransomware attack. That attack managed to take data and systems offline across nine district [...]
New York is the latest in the growing list of states like California, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, enacting privacy and data security laws. On July 25, 2019, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law the Stop Hacks and Improve [...]
Law firms and Legal services are especially vulnerable to cybersecurity threats. As we start off the new year, we have listed a few of the many threats that can compromise your laptop, network and client data: [...]
Cyber-criminals are opportunistic: if they see an easy target ripe with sensitive data, they are going to take advantage. There are several key factors that combine to make schools easy and profitable targets. The first is that most institutions [...]
Greater use of Automated Incident Response is what's needed to Combat Phishing and Improve Security As law firms begin to plan their cybersecurity strategy for 2020 and beyond, email security will certainly be high on the agenda. That’s [...]
Ransomware attacks and data breaches continue to show no signs of slowing down. Companies across many industry verticals fall victim to what seems to be an almost daily occurrence. Most recently, the education sector is proving to be an easy & [...]
As we look back on October, Cybersecurity Awareness Month, it is important to understand the state of the legal industry and how much more can be done to increase security and awareness in general. Thanks to the ABA’s 2018 Legal Technology [...]