Law firms sit on top of privileged and confidential information that clients, ethics rules, and increasingly courts and regulators expect to be protected to a professional standard.
Cyber One Solutions supports legal clients with a technology program that treats confidentiality, integrity, and availability of client information as the organizing principles rather than as afterthoughts.
Model Rule 1.6 and Professional Responsibility.
ABA Model Rule 1. 6 and the equivalent state rules in Texas and Tennessee impose an affirmative duty on attorneys to make reasonable efforts to prevent inadvertent or unauthorized disclosure of client information.
What constitutes reasonable effort is increasingly defined by reference to commonly accepted technical controls: MFA, encryption, access controls, logging, and a documented incident response program.
Our service delivery implements those controls and documents them in a form suitable for outside counsel opinions or malpractice carrier reviews.
Matter-Based Security.
Most firms organize work by client and matter, and access rights should follow that structure.
We implement document management security, SharePoint and OneDrive permissions, and identity-based access so that paralegals, associates, and partners see what they need for their active matters without broad access to unrelated files.
Ethical walls for conflicted matters are configured and audited rather than relying on instructions emailed to everyone.
Client Security Questionnaires and Outside Counsel Guidelines.
Corporate clients now routinely require firms to complete security questionnaires before engagement.
We provide the technical answers, evidence artifacts, and attestation language firms need to respond completely and credibly, which shortens the sales cycle for new institutional clients.
