Security News > 2022 > April > The evolving role of the lawyer in cybersecurity

Long gone are the days when organizations could rely entirely on defensive measures within their own environments for protection: effective threat intelligence and threat hunting programs can take the fight from behind the firewall directly to the adversaries themselves - with lawyers playing a crucial role on the front lines.

The use of threat intelligence and threat hunting are quickly becoming cornerstones of effective cybersecurity programs, and this was a central theme discussed at the ACC Foundation's recent Cybersecurity Summit.

When actionable threat intelligence is combined with the skills and powers of technically sophisticated lawyers, that can be a force multiplier, pivoting an organization's cybersecurity posture from being reactive and defensive to active and aggressive.

One of our attorney colleagues in New York used a bespoke threat intelligence system that he developed to identify and help to neutralize the domains that hosted a forthcoming cyberattack on the World Health Organization at the outset of the Coronavirus crisis in March 2020.

Going even further, lawyers can play an ever-increasingly important role in the context of threat intelligence - outside the usual mandate of negotiating contracts with threat intelligence vendors or establish agreement appendices that pertain to privacy rights or data breaches.

This crossover of intellectual property and cybersecurity is critical: being able to demonstrate that a domain or subdomain infringes on the trademark rights of an organization can be the difference between the service provider of a threat actor ignoring or complying with a takedown request.

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