Cyber risk for law firms

Your matter files are worth more to an attacker than your bank details.

Law firms hold settlement funds, unreleased deal terms and privileged client material in one place. That combination makes them a standing target for both ransomware and payment redirection — and it is why insurers underwrite legal work more carefully than most professional services.

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What actually goes wrong

Three ways law firms get hit.

Trust account redirection

Spoofed settlement instructions sent from a lookalike domain are the single most costly fraud in Australian legal practice. It works when a firm's email authentication lets anyone send as them.

Privilege as leverage

Ransomware crews increasingly skip encryption and simply threaten to publish. Privileged material gives them unusual leverage, which raises both the ransom demand and the notifiable-breach exposure.

Practice management exposure

Matter management systems left reachable from the internet, often a legacy remote-access setup for partners working from home.

What we check first

The three that matter most for law firms.

Your score covers all six checks. These are the ones that most often explain a low score in your industry.

Email spoofing

Whether someone can send email that looks like you.

Leaked passwords

Staff addresses appearing in public breach databases.

Exposed services

Open ports and remote access visible from the internet.

Where you stand

The obligations that apply to you.

Legal Profession Uniform Law obligations around trust money sit alongside the Privacy Act's notifiable data breach scheme. A breach involving client files is very likely notifiable.

General information only, not legal advice. CertIQ scores your operational posture — it does not assess your compliance.

$1.4m

Average business email compromise loss, professional services

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