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The Cybersecurity & Privacy Law Committee is weighing a formal recommendation that Florida Bar members develop an “incident response plan” for ransomware attacks and other data breaches.
“We have to assume everyone is going to get hit, and we have to have the best profile in place when that awful day comes,” Co-Chair Franklin Zemel said at an October 16 meeting.
Experts say lawyers and law firms regularly handle such confidential data that they are prime targets for ransomware attacks. An incident response plan, or “IRP,” typically includes detailed steps for identifying, containing, investigating, and recovering from a cybersecurity incident.
