Protect What Is Privileged

Your Attorneys Shouldn’t Be the Last Line of Defense

Law firms sell trust. Clients hand over their most sensitive information, like deal terms, litigation strategy, health records and Social Security numbers, because they believe it’s safe with you.

That trust is under real pressure. Cyberattacks on law firms nearly doubled last year, and in the past six weeks alone, at least four major U.S. firms have disclosed breaches. The ones with details made public share a pattern. They didn’t start with some sophisticated zero-day. They started with one person: one message that looked legitimate, one click, one compromised account.

People are going to make mistakes. Your security architecture has to account for that.

Training is important. It can’t be the control.

Security awareness training matters, and every firm should do it. But attorneys are in email, shared files and portals all day, working with clients, opposing counsel, courts and vendors. That’s the job, and it means thousands of links and attachments crossing their screens every week.

Even the most careful people will eventually see a message that looks exactly right. That isn’t a failure of training or of the people who take it. It’s the math. The best way to support them is to stop known threats before those threats ever reach them.

Your attorneys need to move fast. Your security should move faster.

If you already know it’s bad, why let it in?

Here’s the part that doesn’t make sense to me. Much of the infrastructure behind these attacks is already known: the phishing domains, the command-and-control servers, the hosts that stolen data gets sent to and even the scanners that are investigating your network months before the attack. Threat intelligence providers and others track it every day, and many firms already pay for that knowledge.The problem is that they have no way to enforce it.

So,  the typical approach is to let that traffic in. The firewall inspects it, the SIEM logs it, the endpoint tool watches for it, an analyst investigates the alert, and everyone hopes the attorney doesn’t click.

Detecting and responding to threats you already know are bad after they’re inside your network makes no sense. That’s reactive security. Preemptive security is stopping it before it gets in the network.

You have the data. If you already know something is malicious, there’s no reason to let it further into the environment. Even if it seems harmless today, it doesn’t mean it will be harmless tomorrow.

One layer earlier is a big deal

I’ve heard the pushback: “That’s just blocking in front of the firewall. It’s only positionally different.”

Position is the whole point. Every threat we stop early is one less thing the rest of the security stack has to process. The firewall doesn’t inspect it. The SIEM doesn’t ingest it, and you don’t pay to store it. Your MDR doesn’t investigate it. Your attorney never sees it.

Scale is the other half. A state-of-the-art firewall can handle about 150,000 third party threat indicators. That sounds like a lot until you realize our native dataset alone is tracking about 10 million live today. So teams end up picking which known threats to block and letting the rest through, a constant game of whack-a-mole. threatER can enforce up to 150 million indicators in real time, and we typically see 30 to 50% of total traffic simply drop.

On the network and off it

Attorneys don’t stay behind the firewall. They work from courtrooms, client offices, airports and home. Protection has to follow them.

That’s why threatER runs on two products that work together.

Enforce protects the network. It stops known-hostile infrastructure from reaching in and stops your devices from reaching out to it, for every connection, whether it starts with a domain or goes straight to an IP address. And by network, we mean the modern hybrid network – data centers, offices, cloud infrastructure and even wi-fi.

EnforceDNS protects your people wherever they are. When an attorney clicks a phishing link on hotel Wi-Fi, the malicious domain never resolves and the page never loads. The connection never happens at all.

Same rules, same policies, same data, on the network and off. That’s what we mean by protecting users and data anywhere and everywhere.

You don’t need to rip anything out

There’s no silver bullet in cyber. Every product has its role. Keep your firewall, your endpoint protection, your MDR and your training program. Just pay for less of it.

Our point is simple. Stop the threats you already know about before you ask the rest of your security stack, or your attorneys, to deal with them. You need the tools you have. threatER makes them operate much more efficiently. Why pay for them to analyze traffic from sources you already know are bad?

Stopping threats without stopping the practice

Legal IT teams have a fair concern: what if we block something the firm needs, like a domain a client registered last week for a new deal?

That’s why the data you choose to allow matters as much as the data you block. Services your firm depends on can be explicitly allowed, even if one turns up on a threat list. And your team decides which intelligence it enforces, not a vendor’s black box.

Find out what’s getting through today

Send us 24 hours of firewall logs. We’ll run them against our threat intelligence and show you what threatER would have stopped before it reached the rest of your environment. No box to install. No rip-and-replace. No commitment.

It answers one useful question: what known threats are reaching your firm today that never needed to get that far?

Protect what’s privileged. Your attorneys need to move fast. Your security should move first.

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