Law Firms Tout Cybersecurity Cred
When Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. discovered in October that a hacker had breached its systems and stolen personal details of roughly one million people, it put the internal probe in the hands of a law firm, rather than one of the forensic investigators typically retained for such incidents.
The insurer hired Boston-based Ropes & Gray LLP in part because the law firm could offer something a forensic firm couldn’t: attorney-client privilege and the secrecy it confers.