IT Support for Law Firms in Broward County
A law firm holds two things criminals want: confidential client information, and money moving between parties on a known schedule. The second is what gets firms hit.
Where the actual exposure sits
- Real estate and settlement work follows a predictable rhythm, and everyone involved knows roughly when funds move. An attacker who reads a mailbox for two weeks knows exactly when to send the fraudulent wire instructions.
- Most small firms have no way to tell a genuine email from their own domain apart from a forged one, because the domain has no enforced email authentication. Anyone can send mail that appears to come from the firm.
- Case files sit in a mix of a document management system, a shared drive, and whatever is in individual mailboxes and personal laptops. Nobody has a complete picture of where client data lives.
- Staff turnover leaves accounts active. Former paralegals frequently still have working credentials months later.
What actually goes wrong
Business email compromise targets the closing, not the network
The attacker does not need to break anything. They need to be in a mailbox, wait, and then send convincing instructions at the right moment. Nothing gets encrypted, no alarm sounds, and the money is gone before anyone notices.
An unauthenticated domain can be impersonated by anyone
Without enforced SPF, DKIM and DMARC, a criminal can send email that appears to come from your firm to your own clients. Roughly two thirds of domains worldwide still have no effective DMARC protection, and small firms are far behind large ones on this.
Confidentiality obligations do not pause for a breach
A firm's duty to safeguard client information is not suspended because the failure was technical. Competence with the technology a practice relies on is an expectation, not a bonus.
How we handle it
- Enforced SPF, DKIM and DMARC so nobody can send mail as your firm
- Identity threat detection that flags a mailbox behaving unlike its owner
- Multi-factor authentication and conditional access on Microsoft 365
- EDR on every machine, including personal laptops used for firm work
- A leavers process that actually disables accounts the same day
- Impersonation protection tuned for the partner and bookkeeper names attackers target
Common questions
How do we stop wire fraud on a real estate closing?
Technically: lock down the mailbox so the attacker never gets in — MFA, conditional access, identity threat detection, and enforced email authentication so your domain cannot be impersonated. Procedurally: verify every change to wire instructions by phone on a number you already had, never a number in the email. The technical controls make compromise unlikely; the phone call is what saves you if they get through anyway.
Can someone really send email pretending to be our firm?
If your domain does not publish an enforced DMARC policy, yes — trivially, and it requires no access to your systems at all. You can check your own domain in about a minute using our free domain exposure report. Most firms are surprised by the result.
Do you work with our existing practice management or document system?
Yes. We are not trying to replace Clio, MyCase, NetDocuments or whatever you already run. Managed IT sits underneath those — the machines, the identities, the mail flow and the network they depend on.
What does this cost for a small firm?
Endpoint protection is $32 per device per month with a five device minimum. A six-person firm with laptops and a couple of desktops typically lands around eight to twelve devices. One-off work comes out of prepaid support hours from $115 per hour.
Start with the free assessment
We run an external security assessment on your domain and show you what we find before you spend anything.