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Recently, Sensei’s John Simek was quoted in “How prepared are law firms for cyber breaches? And how often are firms being attacked?” by Victor Li of the ABA Journal. The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation’s 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.

Excerpt: “Some of the numbers [in the LogicForce study] sound right, but generally, our experience is in line with the studies from the ABA and Altman Weil,” says John Simek, vice president at Sensei Enterprises Inc., a digital forensics, information technology and information security firm. The LogicForce study “has a very small sample set, and they compare apples to oranges to figs to pears and everything else.” For instance, the ABA study found that answers varied, considerably, based on firm size. When it came to having an incident response plan, for example, the ABA study found that 50 percent of firms with 500 or more lawyers and 60 percent of firms with 100 to 499 lawyers, had such a plan in place, compared to only five percent of solo practices and 20.5 percent of firms with 10 to 49 lawyers.

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