The recent wave of cybersecurity breaches at our country's largest law firms makes it evident that the way the legal sector secures our digital assets must change. The White House's National Cybersecurity Strategy ("NCS") seeks to address this. In this series of articles, telecom veteran and legal tech CISO David Roberts offers his thoughts on what the NCS, its implementation strategy, its five pillars of cybersecurity structure, and the evolving threats it hopes to thwart, mean for law firms, their clients, and the future of law in the digital age.

Surely every law firm leader knows they should be doing something about cybersecurity—and many of them believe they are doing enough. In fact, nearly 75 percent of law firm leaders think they are more or much more secure than their industry peers, according to recent study by the International Legal Technology Association and Conversant Group, "Security at Issue: State of Cybersecurity in Law Firms." Yet according to that same report, "…the detailed results demonstrated significant security gaps across firms of all sizes."