Saving Face in Cyberspace

 Security-related advice will be among the many topics covered during the “ISBA Solo and Small Firm Conference 2023: The Intersection of Technology and the Law” Sept. 28-29. Speakers for the security-related sessions spoke with the Illinois Bar Journal to summarize what they plan to discuss. For example, too many solo and small firms assume that their size protects them. But hackers know such firms have “fewer resources and less time, and they’re less attuned to cyberthreats because they’re just trying to run their businesses,” one presenter says.

“If the hackers just freeze up one server, there’s no redundancy or backup. These targets are better for them than the larger firms, which have resources, IT departments, and everything else to combat these attacks.”

Read the September IBJ article, "Saving Face in Cyberspace."