January 2025: INC Ransom breached the State Bar of Texas — 55,000+ attorney records exposed, membership database weaponized. The State Bar handles bar admissions, ethics complaints, clientraud fund claims, and member CLE records. If you practiced before the Texas Supreme Court in the last decade, your client data footprint is on that server.
30-minute IR response. SDVOSB-certified. Texas data residency. IOLTA wire fraud monitoring included.
Median dwell time for law firms: 207 days (IBM X-Force 2024). That's seven months of lateral movement, privilege escalation, and client matter data collection before a single alert fires. Law firms are the highest-value per-record target in professional services — privileged communications, M&A deal terms, litigation strategy, IOLTA account credentials, and client PII all in one fence.
Texas law firms face a unique regulatory stack — state bar ethics, federal privacy law, IRS financial reporting, and defense contractor flow-down — all with active enforcement and no safe harbor for "we didn't know."
These are not hypotheticals. Each is documented — OCR breach notifications, state bar statements, court filings, or confirmed press coverage. They form the threat landscape your firm's insurers and clients are already measuring you against.
Law firms are not generic enterprises. Privileged data, IOLTA accounts, litigation holds, and multi-jurisdiction bar obligations require a security architecture built for legal sector workflows — not retrofitted from a healthcare or financial services template.
If your firm has clients who are DoD primes, subcontractors, or CMMC-regulated entities, you're subject to their vendor security attestation requirements. CoreRecon's SDVOSB certification isn't a marketing badge — it's a contracting mechanism that lets defense-adjacent firms meet their subcontractor security obligations through a certified vendor.
CoreRecon publishes pricing because law firms shouldn't need to spend 90 minutes on a sales call to learn whether a cybersecurity provider is in-bounds. Three tiers. Per-endpoint. All include 24/7 SOC coverage and 30-minute IR SLA.
The 30-minute SLA isn't marketing — it's the difference between containment and dwell time. Ransomware operators complete the full attack chain (initial access → lateral movement → credential harvesting → encryption) in 45–90 minutes on average. Most MSSPs detect and respond within 1–4 hours. The window between what they offer and what ransomware actually does is where firms lose everything.
CoreRecon maps every SOC function to the specific regulation or framework that requires it. When your malpractice carrier, bar committee, or enterprise client asks "what does your security program actually cover?", this is the answer.
| Regulation / Framework | Required Control | CoreRecon Function |
|---|---|---|
| TX Disciplinary Rule 1.05 | Competence in technology risk; confidentiality of client data | 24/7 SOC monitoring, EDR, documented incident response capability |
| TX DR 1.05 (modified ABA 1.6) | Reasonable measures to prevent unauthorized access; breach response | 30-min IR SLA, breach notification workflow, documented IR plan |
| ABA Model Rule 1.6(c) + Formal Opinion 483 | Written information security program (WISP); breach notification | Policy library, vCISO retainer, WISP authorship (Command tier) |
| TDPSA §541 | 60-day breach notification to TX AG + affected residents; data minimization | Breach detection, IR team coordinates notification, forensic documentation |
| CMMC 2.0 Phase 2 (DFARS 252.204-7012) | SPRS score, SSP, POA&M, incident reporting to DoD within 72 hours | SPRS gap assessment, POA&M tracking, DFARS incident response plan |
| HIPAA (where applicable — healthcare client matters) | Security Rule controls, PHI breach notification within 60 days | HIPAA-mapped SOC, PHI access monitoring, OCR-level incident response |
| IRS Pub 4557 (WISP — for firms with financial services clients) | Written information security plan; annual review; incident documentation | WISP review support, vCISO retainer (Command tier), annual policy review |
| Cyber Insurance (cyber liability / E&O carriers) | Minimum basic controls questionnaire (Critical, High, Medium control categories) | Control documentation package, carrier questionnaire completion support |
Most MSSPs serve banks, healthcare systems, and manufacturers. Law firms have a different risk profile: privileged data, IOLTA accounts, litigation holds, and bar ethics obligations. CoreRecon is built for legal sector workflows from day one.
| Capability | Generic MSSP | CoreRecon |
|---|---|---|
| TX-based SOC analysts | Cloud SOC — offshore or mixed | TX-resident analysts, US-based |
| 30-min IR SLA (contractual) | 1–4 hour best-effort | Contractual. Measured monthly. |
| IOLTA wire fraud monitoring | Standard BEC (not law-firm-specific) | IOLTA workflow monitoring included (Fortress+) |
| Bar ethics compliance documentation | Not offered | TX Bar Rule 1.05 mapped controls (Command tier) |
| CMMC / SPRS documentation | Available as add-on (3–6 month project) | Quarterly gap assessment included (Fortress+) |
| Litigation hold / e-discovery hardening | Not offered | Retain-not-delete protocol (Fortress+) |
| Published pricing | "Contact sales" — 90-min call to get a quote | Published. $89–$129/endpoint. Month-to-month. |
| SDVOSB contracting | Not available | SDVOSB-certified. CVE-verified. |
Our Security Posture Assessment covers your endpoint exposure, email threat landscape, wire fraud workflow gaps, and bar ethics compliance posture. It's free. Takes 20 minutes to complete. We'll deliver a written report with prioritized findings — not a sales deck.
8 documented incidents. State Bar of TX (INC Ransom). Orrick. Mossing & Navarre. Bryan Cave CCG. TX regulatory stack mapped (Rule 5.03, ABA 1.6, Formal Opinion 483, TDPSA, CMMC 2.0). 35+ verified sources. Print-ready PDF.
Direct answers. Not legal advice. Not a substitute for your breach counsel — but enough to know whether we're a fit.
State Bar of TX (Jan 2025). Orrick $8M. Mossing & Navarre. The incidents are documented. Your bar obligations are clear. The only question is whether your firm has a documented security program with a contractual IR SLA — or a hope and a default cyber insurance policy.
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