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Accountability and ROI: Building Cybersecurity into Your Budget

By Heinan Landa
April 01, 2021

Last year we watched cybercriminals seize a massive business opportunity.

Our rapid shift to working from home plus heightened financial, political, social, and emotional stressors presented a perfect storm: we were all working from inherently unsecure home environments, and heightened anxieties made us even more susceptible to social engineering scams.

Law firms that had invested so much time and money into securing their office networks became very vulnerable very suddenly, and bad actors did not hesitate to cash in — overall, the FBI's Internet Cybercrime Complaint Center (IC3) saw a 400% increase in reported cyberattacks in 2020.

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