Pentest Reporting for Legal & Law Firms
Safeguard attorney-client privilege and sensitive case data with penetration testing reports that demonstrate due diligence to clients and regulators.
Security Challenges in Legal & Law Firms
Law firms are repositories of their clients' most sensitive information: merger and acquisition details, litigation strategy, intellectual property, and personal data subject to attorney-client privilege. This makes them exceptionally attractive targets for corporate espionage, nation-state actors seeking intelligence on government-related cases, and ransomware operators who know firms will pay to prevent disclosure of confidential client materials.
- The ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct require lawyers to make reasonable efforts to safeguard client information, with ethics opinions increasingly interpreting this to include regular cybersecurity assessments and penetration testing.
- Document management systems, e-discovery platforms, client communication portals, and case management applications contain vast amounts of privileged information across matters spanning years or decades.
- Major corporate clients and financial institutions now require outside counsel to complete detailed security assessments and provide penetration test evidence before sharing sensitive case materials or granting access to their systems.
Penetration testing in legal environments must account for the extreme sensitivity of the data involved. Reports themselves become confidential documents requiring careful handling. Findings need to be communicated in terms that managing partners and practice group leaders understand, while providing enough technical detail for IT teams that are often small and under-resourced compared to other industries of similar data sensitivity.
How Vulnsy Helps
Vulnsy helps security teams deliver penetration testing reports that meet the unique demands of legal sector engagements. Finding templates cover vulnerabilities commonly found in law firm environments: document management system access control weaknesses, client portal authentication flaws, email security gaps that threaten attorney-client privilege, and network segmentation issues between practice groups handling matters with conflicting interests.
The platform's report generation produces clear, professional documents that serve dual audiences: the firm's IT team receives actionable technical remediation steps, while managing partners and general counsel receive executive summaries that frame risk in terms of professional responsibility obligations, client trust, and malpractice exposure.
- Client portals provide a secure channel for delivering sensitive assessment findings to law firm leadership, replacing insecure email attachments with role-based access controls and audit trails.
- Reusable templates with legal-sector-specific context ensure that remediation recommendations account for the operational realities of law firms, including the need to maintain uninterrupted access to case files and client communications during remediation.
- Team collaboration features support joint assessments across a firm's office locations, each of which may have distinct network infrastructure and local IT management.