Lawyers from New York’s Harris Beach urged an audience at ALM’s cyberSecure conference on Wednesday to press clients on their data protections, and to encourage clients to look to their outside counsel if they fall victim to a cyberattack.

“Rather than seeing cybersecurity as a reductive, restrictive, disabling part of our operations, I challenge every lawyer in the room to see it as an enabler,” said Alan Winchester, a Harris Beach partner and the moderator of a panel discussion about cybersecurity. The threat of a breach is a business opportunity for law firms, he said.

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