Verizon GC: Law Firms Are Prime Targets for Hackers

Although most people think of Verizon as a telecommunications company, the organization has also become an authority on cybersecurity.

In 2015, it issued a report that analyzed 79,790 cybersecurity incidents and 2,122 confirmed data breaches across 61 different countries. “The year 2014 saw the term ‘data breach’ become part of the broader public vernacular with The New York Times devoting more than 700 articles related to data breaches, versus fewer than 125 the previous year,” the introduction to the report states.

Verizon General Counsel Craig Silliman said that he thinks law firms are prime targets for hackers.

“Firms have to make sure they ...