Your client’s secrets
are only as safe as your email.
Privileged communications, trust account data, and engagement letters move through your email and website every day. If your domain isn’t authenticated, encrypted, and monitored — that’s a malpractice exposure, not just a technical problem.
Bar associations don’t
accept “we didn’t know.”
Professional Responsibility Rules Require Reasonable Security
ABA Model Rule 1.6 and its state equivalents require lawyers to make “reasonable efforts” to prevent unauthorized disclosure of client information. State bar ethics opinions increasingly interpret this as requiring email authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), encrypted transmission (MTA-STS), and documented security controls. A spoofed email from your domain isn’t just embarrassing — it’s a potential disciplinary matter.
Malpractice Insurers Check Your Email Security
Professional liability insurance applications now include cybersecurity questionnaires. Carriers ask about email authentication, encryption, access controls, and incident response plans. Firms that can’t demonstrate these controls face higher premiums, coverage exclusions, or outright denial. The security documentation your carrier wants should already exist — not be assembled in a panic during renewal.
Client Confidentiality Is Non-Negotiable
Attorney-client privilege and accountant-client privilege are foundational to practice. When your email domain can be spoofed, your website runs on shared infrastructure where a neighbor’s breach can compromise your data, and your DNS isn’t signed — confidentiality is aspirational, not actual. Opposing counsel and regulators know the difference.
Sixteen checks mapped to
your compliance obligations.
Every security control we implement maps directly to the requirements your bar association, malpractice insurer, and state regulators care about.
Prevents domain spoofing and email impersonation. Satisfies ABA Formal Opinion 477R requirements for “reasonable efforts” to secure electronic communications. DMARC at p=reject ensures no one can send email pretending to be your firm.
Forces encrypted email transmission between mail servers. Privileged communications intercepted in transit create both a breach notification obligation and a potential waiver of privilege. MTA-STS prevents downgrade attacks that strip encryption.
Your firm’s website runs in complete isolation — not on shared infrastructure where another site’s vulnerability becomes yours. Security headers prevent clickjacking, XSS, and MIME-type attacks against client portals and intake forms.
Cryptographic DNS signatures prevent cache poisoning that redirects your domain’s traffic. RPKI prevents BGP hijacking. Together, they ensure clients reach your actual servers — not an attacker’s.
Automatic certificate provisioning, renewal, and monitoring with HSTS enforcement. An expired certificate on your client portal isn’t just a warning — it’s a signal to clients and opposing counsel that your security is unmanaged.
We generate compliance documentation formatted for malpractice insurance applications, bar association inquiries, and client due diligence requests. Security configurations, audit logs, and incident response procedures — documented and ready.
Family law firm, 12 attorneys.
Cyber-insurance audit fixed in 6 days.
A twelve-attorney family law firm received a cyber-insurance renewal questionnaire requesting evidence of email authentication, encryption controls, and incident response procedures. Their previous hosting provider couldn’t produce any of it. The renewal deadline was in two weeks, and the carrier had already flagged the firm for incomplete responses on the prior year’s application.
We migrated their website and email infrastructure to PrismWeb in 72 hours. Within six days, we had deployed SPF, DKIM, and DMARC at enforcement level, configured MTA-STS for encrypted email transmission, implemented DNSSEC across all domains, moved their website to isolated hosting with full security headers, and generated a comprehensive evidence packet documenting every control.
The firm passed the cyber-insurance audit with full marks. Their renewal premium decreased 18% compared to the prior year. The managing partner told us the documentation alone — ready on demand, formatted for insurer questionnaires — was worth the annual fee. They’ve since referred three other firms in their building.
Regulations that apply
to your practice.
ABA Model Rules 1.1 (competence), 1.6 (confidentiality), and state equivalents requiring reasonable security measures for client data.
Carrier questionnaires requiring email authentication, encryption, access controls, and documented incident response procedures.
California Consumer Privacy Act and equivalent state laws governing the collection and protection of personal information.
Increasingly specific security requirements for policy issuance, including MFA, email authentication, endpoint protection, and backup verification.
Privileged data deserves
privileged infrastructure.
Tell us your domain. We’ll run the sixteen checks, show you exactly where your exposure is, and give you a compliance roadmap before you hang up.