Law Firms Form Their Own Threat Intel-Sharing Group

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http://www.darkreading.com/perimeter/law-firms-form-their-own-threat-intel-sharing-group/d/d-id/1321846

By Kelly Jackson Higgins
Dark Reading
8/20/2015

It's been months in the making, and it's finally official:  the legal 
sector has launched its own cyber-threat intelligence-sharing mechanism.

The new Legal Services Information Sharing and Analysis Organization 
(LS-ISAO) Services debuted yesterday -- via the financial services' 
industry's 15-year-old Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis 
Center (FS-ISAC), which is considered one of the most mature ISAC/ISAO 
groups today. Word that the FS-ISAC was assisting the launch of the legal 
sector's own group first came earlier this year.

Law firms are a juicy target for cyberattacks given the amount of 
confidential corporate information they handle, including information on 
mergers and acquisitions and other legal issues, so it was no surprise the 
legal sector was prime for an ISAC/ISAO.

"We're providing [to the legal ISAO] the infrastructure to disseminate and 
receive cybersecurity threat and vulnerability information," says Cindy 
Donaldson, vice president of products and services with FS-ISAC.

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