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As demonstrated by the so-called “Panama Papers” leak of 11.5 million records from the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, there’s no doubt that law firms are being targeted by attackers seeking to access, steal and potentially leak their clients’ secrets.
Two lessons that all law firms – and other organizations – should learn from the massive leak are the need “to protect against insider threats – if they have not learned the lesson from Edward Snowden,” as well as “to double-down on their due diligence in hiring employees,” says attorney Sean Doherty, an information governance, compliance and e-discovery analyst for market researcher 451 Research. A third lesson, he says, is “the power of the press,” noting that “their power to investigate is second only to nation-states.”
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