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Sensei Pens Column For Above The Law

December 7, 2023

Above the Law  featured Sensei article entitled “Artificial Intelligence: How It Can Target Your Firm’s Cybersecurity Defenses ” by Sharon Nelson, John Simek and Michael Maschke. This article is the latest in a new monthly series entitled Cybersecurity: Tips From the Trenches  with Sharon Nelson, Esq., John Simek and Michael Maschke of Sensei Enterprises. As noted authors and lecturers, Sharon, John and Michael speak on a variety of IT, Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics subjects. They lecture throughout North America and have been interviewed by TIME, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, Reuters, many newspapers and even Oprah Winfrey’s O magazine.

Excerpt:

AI is Bright and Shiny: It is Also Lethal to Law Firm Security
Lawyers have rapidly gravitated toward using artificial intelligence. Indeed, AI can be very useful. But there is a dark side to AI. In the wrong hands, AI can be a deadly foe of law firm security.

In general, AI cyberattacks are more sophisticated and harder to spot. And AI is continually growing more sophisticated, complicating the problem. While “good” AI is part of most law firms these days, the “bad” AI is always improving and often several steps ahead of the “good” AI. That is further complicated by the oft-cited precept that, in cybersecurity, the bad guys outnumber the good guys 100-1.

Read the entire article here.