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Digital Workforce Security Designed To Overcome Key Sources of Cybersecurity Risk In Legal Practices

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Key Challenges Facing Law Firms and Legal Practices

Time-strapped, high-value workforce

Legacy security tools struggle to detect the nuanced, real-world behaviors that create ethical and regulatory risk.

Emerging risks of shadow AI

Under-regulated AI-tool use risks data leaks that could expose confidential discovery or intellectual property.

Rising social engineering threats

Attackers increasingly target attorneys and support staff, all with access to valuable client information.

Chronic resource constraints

Lean teams struggle to manage training, compliance and human-risk reduction at scale.

Real Value for Law Firms and Legal Practices

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Lower administrative drag and billable hour loss

Automated workflows, integrated content and centralized reporting reduce time spent managing fragmented tools.

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Fewer human and AI agent incidents

Significant reductions in client-spoofing business email compromise (BEC) attacks and shadow AI discovery leaks.

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Incident response that keeps up with the pace of business

Behavior insights eliminate false positives and help teams act quickly on the threats to client data.

Lower security operations center (SOC) workload

Automated evidence capture, alerts and reporting lighten the load on already stretched teams.

What Our Customers Say

“It works in the background and only alerts our employees when they’re about to make a mistake and misdirect an email, offering them genuine value and significantly reducing our risk profile.”

Dave Eagle Director of IT, RWK Goodman Read the full case study

“Users receive the right alerts at the right time, helping boost user compliance and positively influencing user behavior.”

Mahesh Belagali Head of Information Security, Wotton Kearney Read the full case study

"KnowBe4 has helped improve our end user experience and help reduce overall risk."

Clint Van Winkle, Director of Information Technology, Hill Ward Henderson

Latest Legal Practice Insights, Trends and Resources

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The 3 Biggest Email Security Challenges Facing Legal Organizations

Legacy filters fail against AI-driven phishing and outbound leaks. Discover the three biggest email threats targeting the legal sector today and how to fix them.

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The Case for Behavioral AI in Legal Email Security

Law firms are prime targets for sophisticated cyberattacks. See how behavioral AI secures the legal inbox to protect attorney-client privilege and eliminate blind spots.

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Reduce risk where it starts:
human and agentic decisions.

KnowBe4 protects your most vulnerable attack surface: humans, and now their AI agents too. Discover how our end-to-end platform thwarts threats by weaving risk deterrence into everyone's workday:

Security Awareness Training

Change behavior. Build resilience.

Go beyond check-the-box training. Deliver timely, personalized education that helps people recognize and resist evolving threats.

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Cloud Email Security

Block threats before they ever hit the inbox.

Our layered cloud defenses spot and stop phishing, malware, and social engineering attacks—no tuning, no guesswork, just smarter protection where it matters most.

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AI Defense Agents

Spot human risk before it strikes.

Leverage behavior-based intelligence and real-time insights to detect risky actions — and stop them cold with Agentic AI defense responses.

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Agent Risk Manager

Secure your AI agent workforce.

Eliminate AI security blind spots with real-time visibility, automated threat detection, and active AI agent control.

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Platform Overview

Compliance and Regulatory Obligations

Law firms face a highly complex regulatory landscape. The KnowBe4 Platform strengthens compliance by unifying policy management, automated evidence capture, workforce controls and oversight.

American Bar Association (ABA) Model Rules 1.1 and 1.6

The rules require attorneys to maintain technological competence in protecting client data (Rule 1.1, Comment 8) and take reasonable steps to prevent unauthorized access to client information (Rule 1.6(c)).

GDPR (EU) 2016/679

European data protection regulation direction applicable to law firms handling EU individuals’ personal data. Mandates security measures and 72-hour breach notification to regulators.

OCG Reviews / Outside Counsel Guidelines

Data security and compliance requirements imposed by enterprise corporate clients onto the law firms they engage. A firm must meet a client’s OCG standards to win or retain that client's business.

See The KnowBe4 Platform in Action

Request a personalized demo today to discover how you can turn the tables on AI-powered social engineering threats.

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