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What actually threatens a Lawrenceville office

For most small offices, the danger is not a dramatic hack. It is a fake invoice, a stolen Microsoft 365 password or ransomware that slipped in through an outdated laptop. The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center counted 24,768 business email compromise complaints across the country in 2025, with $3.05 billion in reported losses. It also logged 12,368 real estate fraud complaints, which cost victims $275 million. Georgia was in the top ten states for both complaint count and total losses.

Those schemes line up closely with the work done in Lawrenceville. Georgia is an attorney-closing state, so closing attorneys and title offices near the Square handle buyers' funds and wiring instructions every week. Trial and family law firms keep sealed records, financial affidavits and private correspondence. Medical practices around Northside Hospital Gwinnett store patient records protected by HIPAA, and the FBI report names health care among the sectors most hit by ransomware.

Duties that come with the work

Georgia's rules of professional conduct require lawyers to keep client information confidential. The American Bar Association's Formal Opinion 477R (2017) explains that this includes reasonable steps to secure electronic communications, and Formal Opinion 483 (2018) covers what lawyers should do after a data breach. For medical offices, the HIPAA Security Rule calls for access controls, audit logs, encryption decisions and a documented risk analysis. We handle the technical side of those obligations and give you records you can show an insurer, auditor or bar inquiry.

The layers we put in place

• Multifactor authentication on email, remote access, practice software where it is supported and every admin account.
• Email filtering that catches phishing, look-alike domains and harmful attachments, plus a one-click way for staff to report a message.
• Endpoint detection and response on every computer and server. It watches for behavior like a burst of files being encrypted and can quarantine the device on its own.
• Human alert review: security alerts go to our team, who investigate and act on them.
• Encryption on laptops and phones, so a device left in a courtroom or a car doesn't become a breach.
• Account hygiene: departing staff removed the same day, admin rights limited and shared passwords replaced with a managed password vault.
• Segmented networks that keep guest Wi-Fi, cameras and lobby kiosks away from your case files or patient records.
• Security training with short lessons and realistic test phishing messages built around the scams that target closings and medical billing.

If something gets through

No protection stops everything. If a mailbox is taken over or a computer is infected, we isolate it, check which files and accounts were reached, rebuild from clean copies and then help you work out who needs to be told: clients, patients, your malpractice or cyber insurer, or your bank. For a law firm, that conversation may also involve the duty to inform clients that the ABA opinion describes. A written response plan, prepared before anything happens, makes those first hours far less chaotic.

Cyber insurance questions

Insurers now ask pointed questions at renewal. Is MFA on every account? Do you run endpoint detection? Are backups protected from deletion? We help you answer honestly and fix whatever would raise your premium or weaken a claim.

How we begin

A security review covers Microsoft 365 settings, sign-in history, device protection, the firewall, backups and admin access. The report ranks findings by risk and explains each one in plain terms. High-value fixes like MFA and blocking old sign-in methods are often done within two weeks. From there, we keep watching alerts, review accounts every month and bring a short security summary to every quarterly review.

Questions about cybersecurity