Improving IT Security: Legal Practices at a Substantial Risk as Prime Targets
Gain a step by step guide to improving your practice’s IT security to prevent increasing privacy and data breach risks for law firms.
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Improving IT Security: Legal Practices at a Substantial Risk as Prime Targets
- Why are law practices now prime targets?
- Navigating legal obligations imposed upon data collection
- Privacy laws and data breach notification obligations
- Law society rules
- Federal criminal code
- Identifying and dealing with different types of security threats
- Ransomware
- Unauthorised access
- The enemy within: accidental actions, disgruntled employees
- External attacks: rational attackers, irrational attackers, third party supplier
- How can a law firm manage its risk profile?
- Size counts: major law firms
- Security officer
- Engagement of tiger teams and red teams
- Small to medium firms
- Cloud environments
Presented by Dr Adrian McCullagh, ODMOB Lawyers
Presenters
Dr Adrian McCullagh
Adrian has degrees in Computer Science and Law as well as a Ph.D. in IT Security. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Information Security Research Centre at the Queensland University of Technology. He has been practicing in IT law for more than 30 years being one of the pioneer IT lawyers within Australia. He is a member of the Queensland Law Society and a member of the American Bar Association and participate in the Information Security Forum. In 1999 he was the QUT Faculty of Information Technology Alumnus of the year.