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Legal Tech's Predictions for Cybersecurity in 2024
Cybersecurity was one of the legal industry’s top concerns in 2023. Aside from generative AI—which has its own cybersecurity issues—stories of increasingly frequent cyber attacks on law firms and legal tech companies drew a lot of attention from LTN readers. Ransomware groups like LockBit, CLOP and BlackCat/ALPHV ramped up their attacks and honed their hacking strategies last year, and there’s no reason to think that they’ll slow down or stop upping their sophistication in 2024.
Navigating Board Turbulence: Lessons From OpenAI
OpenAI, the high-flying developer of the groundbreaking ChatGPT AI chatbot and its associated foundational large language models, recently made headlines that set the corporate governance world abuzz. On a quiet Friday in Silicon Valley, one week before Thanksgiving 2023, and just before the one-year launch anniversary of ChatGPT, the company publicly announced the firing of Sam Altman, its prominent co-founder, CEO, and board member. Chaos ensued after Altman’s unexpected removal.
Nervous System: Paying With Your Finger
With the aggressive pace of technological change and the onslaught of news regarding data breaches, cyber-attacks, and technological threats to privacy and security, it is easy to assume these are fundamentally new threats. The pace of technological change is slower than it feels, and many seemingly new categories of threats have been with us longer than we remember.
Legal Tech's Milestones for E-Discovery in 2023
E-discovery is a perennial favorite topic among LTN readers, and that was as true as ever in 2023. No strangers to having to master new technologies, e-discovery professionals were quick to consider the implications of generative AI, among other technological developments like Slack, Teams and other short messaging platforms.
Gen AI vs. the GDPR: A Look Back at This Year’s Tensions
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Legal Tech's Milestons for Cybersecurity & Data Privacy in 2023
Cybersecurity and data privacy were potentially the most hot-button issues this past year, aside from generative AI—which had significant implications of its own in both areas. In the cyber realm, we saw a huge uptick in law firm cyber attacks, and legal tech companies were not spared in the new wave of hacking. Ransomware groups like LockBit, CLOP and BlackCat/ALPHV were increasingly on the prowl in 2023, exploiting vulnerabilities in software like MOVEit and demanding high ransom payments.
Allen & Overy Partners with Harvey, Microsoft to Create ContractMatrix Tool
Allen & Overy is set to roll out an AI tool to assist with drafting contracts—marking a new phase of AI use among law firms. The tool, which is called ContractMatrix, has been created by A&O in partnership with Microsoft and Harvey, will be scaled up for client and “wider market use”, according to the firm. Want to continue reading?
5 Ways Security Testing Can Aid Incident Response
The importance for organizations to understand who their adversaries are and how they operate against their enterprise environments cannot be understated. An organization's approach to cybersecurity testing and resilience improvements in the face of an increasingly volatile threat landscape must be underpinned around this perspective.
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