For all of the attention paid to hacking, DDoS attacks and other types of malicious cybersecurity threats, the one that keeps the most law firm technologists up at night is something used every day: email. According to the 2015 Am Law LTN Tech Survey, phishing emails are viewed as the single biggest security threat to the law firm, frightening 25 percent of the survey’s respondents the most.
However, a report from Google, conducted with the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois, actually says that email is becoming safer than in the past. The study found that email encryption is increasing across the board, both within Google’s Gmail service and in other email providers, and email authentication is becoming normalized.
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