Legal Tech’s Predictions for Cybersecurity in 2022
This past year was the year of the threat vector. With so many people now working remotely, the amount of infiltration points for potential bad actors multiplied. Phishing attacks intensified as employees became married to email and communication platforms. And ransomware knocked companies across the world offline with devastating consequences.
But even with that backdrop, there’s hope for the cyber future. Both federal and state governments focused on cybersecurity as a cornerstone for the future, providing more resources for cybersecurity professionals to fight back. More business leaders saw the damage cyber attacks can bring, leading to increased attention (and funds) paid to their organizations’ cyber issues. And employees themselves began to take cyber issues more seriously, with training and awareness about phishing and other social engineering attempts on the rise.
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Sharon Klein, partner, Blank Rome: “The new year will ring in the age of cybersecurity review boards like the Cyber Safety Review Board for federal government contractors and the California Privacy Protection Agency under CPRA. These public-private entities will set policy and investigate incidents. It remains to be seen how these boards coordinate with law enforcement such as state attorney generals. In 2022, the government is taking cybersecurity very seriously; businesses which ignore the cybersecurity standards do so at their peril.”
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“Legal Tech’s Predictions for Cybersecurity in 2022,” by Zach Warren, was published in Legaltech News on December 28, 2021.