Most cybersecurity news headlines involve massive data breaches affecting millions of individuals. Many small to medium-sized business owners, including lawyers, assume that data breaches are a "big corporation" problem, but U.S. businesses of all sizes suffer cyberattacks and data privacy violations. While there is no way to totally prevent data breaches, there are manageable, discreet steps that lawyers and their clients can take to significantly minimize the risks associated with data privacy violations and cybersecurity attacks. In this article, we outline those steps and discuss various privacy issues that arise in the transactional context.

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