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Sensei Article Featured in ABA Law Practice Magazine

January 26, 2017

If you look at the “Hot Buttons” column in the January/February 2017 issue of the ABA’s Law Practice Magazine, you will find practical security information from Sensei’s Sharon Nelson and John Simek. The article “Security Awareness Training for Law Firm Employees” gives law firms some great tips on keeping their data by training their employees. The Law Practice Magazine is a bi-monthly publication of the American Bar Association’s Law Practice Division.

Excerpt: Sadly, your greatest asset – your employees – are also the greatest threat to your cybersecurity. We know this because we regularly see data breaches and ransomware infections caused by click-happy employees. You also have rogue employees determined to use their own devices, go where they want on the Internet, irrespective of firm policies. When we train them, they tell us that they are scared – and you know what? That means we did our job. One of the great fallacies that employees believe is sometimes called “The IT Shepherd” – they simply have faith that the flock (employees) is protected no matter what they do by the shepherd (technology). You need to make them understand that no technological defenses are ironclad.

Read the entire article here.