Legal & Professional Services Solutions

User Risk in Legal & Professional Services Is the New Attack Surface

Law firms and professional services organizations handle highly sensitive client matters, privileged communications, and trust accounts. Dune helps these organizations prevent social engineering and insider threat across every channel.

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Threat Landscape

The Biggest User-Driven Threats Facing Legal & Professional Services

Law firms and professional services firms face unique threats that exploit client trust, privileged access, and time-sensitive legal workflows.

Critical
Privileged Communications & Case Intelligence
Attackers impersonate partners, co-counsel, and opposing counsel to extract client files, litigation strategies, and M&A intelligence by exploiting the trust built into legal relationships.
Attorney-client privilege violation, case compromise, malpractice liability
Critical
Trust Accounts & Financial Workflows
Attackers spoof clients and co-counsel to redirect wire transfers, escrow disbursements, and IOLTA payments timed around real estate closings, settlements, and M&A transactions.
Diverted client funds, fiduciary liability, bar disciplinary action
Critical
Firm Access & Credential Infrastructure
Attackers target intake, IT, and support staff through fake client outreach, court impersonation, and help desk fraud, harvesting credentials for e-filing portals, case systems, and internal infrastructure.
Unauthorized system access, client data exposure, e-filing compromise
Product Capabilities

How Dune Helps Legal & Professional Services Firms

Purpose-built capabilities to expose, score, and reduce user risk in legal and professional services environments.

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Dynamic User Risk Scoring
Measure User Risk
Quantify breach risk with a dynamic User Risk Score, continuously updated from behavioral, contextual, and role-based signals across your security stack.
Dynamic User Risk Scoring
Unlimited Input Source Data
Exposure Prioritization & Executive Reporting
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GenAI and Conversational Attacks
Simulate Attacks
Launch omni-channel simulations tailored to each user that impersonate trusted roles and adapt in real-time to expose attack susceptibility and insider risk.
GenAI & Conversational Attacks
Omni-Channel Simulation Coverage
Trusted Role & Identity Impersonation
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User Adaptive Training
Reduce Threat Exposure
Adapt training, alerts, and controls in real-time, prioritizing the ~5% driving the risk and minimizing friction for the other ~95%.
User Adaptive Training
Risk-Based Escalation & Controls
Automated Remediation Workflows
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Attack Scenarios

Example Attack Scenarios in Legal & Professional Services

See how modern social engineering attacks target law firms and professional services organizations and how Dune simulates them.

EMAIL
Counsel Impersonation for Case Theft
Attacker impersonates opposing counsel or a co-counsel firm, requesting privileged case documents, settlement terms, or litigation strategy under the guise of discovery coordination or scheduling.
User Decision Point
Associates and paralegals must verify counsel identity through established firm directories before sharing any case materials.
Potential Impact
Berkeley Research Group's 2025 ransomware breach exposed M&A intelligence and confidential bankruptcy case files mid-deal, just as TowerBrook Capital Partners finalized a $700 million leveraged buyout of the firm.
Berkeley Research Group Notice of Data Incident, March 2025
Dune Simulation
Dune deploys agentic opposing counsel impersonation simulations using case-specific context and discovery urgency across channels.
EMAIL / PORTAL
Trust Account & Escrow Wire Redirect
Fraudulent email impersonating a client or title company requesting last-minute changes to wire instructions for a real estate closing, escrow disbursement, or settlement payment.
User Decision Point
Staff must verify wire instruction changes through multi-step callback verification before processing any fund transfers.
Potential Impact
Real estate and rental fraud generated $173.6 million in losses in 2024. Cosmic Lynx, a Russian BEC group specializing in M&A wire fraud, averages $1.27 million per fraudulent transfer request, with individual incidents reaching nearly $3 million.
FBI IC3 2024 Annual Report; Agari Cyber Intelligence Division
Dune Simulation
Dune deploys agentic wire redirect simulations with realistic closing documents and time-pressure urgency to test fund transfer verification protocols.
EMAIL / DOCUMENT SHARING
Client Engagement Letter Phishing
Attacker sends spoofed engagement letters or retainer agreements from a prospective client containing embedded credential harvesting links or malware-laced document attachments.
User Decision Point
Intake teams must verify prospective client identity and scan all attachments before opening or processing engagement documents.
Potential Impact
The average law firm data breach cost $5.08 million in 2024, with 56% of breached firms losing sensitive client information as fake engagement documents and retainer letters became common credential harvesting vectors.
2024 ABA Cybersecurity TechReport
Dune Simulation
Dune deploys prospective client simulations with realistic engagement documents and credential harvesting links to test intake verification protocols.
AI VOICE CALL / EMAIL
Judicial or Court Filing Impersonation
AI-generated voice call or email impersonating a court clerk or judicial chambers requesting immediate filing corrections, credential verification, or document re-submission with a link to a spoofed court portal.
User Decision Point
Staff must verify court communications through official court contact channels before sharing credentials or re-submitting filings.
Potential Impact
AI-related scams cost victims $893 million in 2025, with voice cloning tools needing only seconds of audio to impersonate court clerks or partners during filing windows.
FBI IC3 2025 Internet Crime Report; American Bar Association, September 2025
Dune Simulation
Dune deploys agentic court and judicial impersonation simulations across voice and email channels, testing response to urgent filing requests and credential demands.
I've seen time and time again that companies wait until after a breach to invest in prevention. Dune empowers teams to change that by training employees to recognize threat actor tactics and prevent the actions high-risk users take before they lead to catastrophic events.
Alicia Lynch
Former CISO at SAIC, Cognizant, and TD SYNNEX
Compliance

Built for Legal & Professional Services

Designed to help law firms and professional services organizations safely test real-world user risk while meeting client, regulatory, and compliance expectations.

Enterprise-Grade Capabilities
Designed for law firms and professional services environments

Built with legal security teams in mind, supporting the unique requirements of law firms, accounting firms, and consulting organizations managing confidential client matters.

Safe-by-design simulations that never access real production systems

Every attack simulation is sandboxed and controlled. No privileged communications are accessed, no trust accounts are touched, and no data leaves your environment.

Supports audit, risk, and internal control validation workflows

Generate detailed reports that map directly to audit requirements, demonstrating continuous security testing and user risk assessment.

Demonstrates proactive security posture to regulators and auditors

Show evidence of ongoing user risk testing and remediation, strengthening your position during client security assessments and regulatory examinations.

Safety Guarantee

All simulations are designed to test human behavior. They do not access real client data, privileged communications, or disrupt legal operations.

Supports common legal & enterprise security frameworks

SOC 2 Type II
 Certified – Jan 2024 & Jan 2025
ISO 27001
 Certified – Aug 2024
GDPR
 Compliance Verified – Jan 2025
CCPA
 Compliance Verified – Jan 2025
HIPAA
 Third-Party Attested – Apr 2025
NIST CSF v2.0
 Third-Party Attested – May 2025
Resources

Featured Resources for Legal & Professional Services

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How Social Engineering Exploits Human Behavior in Enterprises

Learn how social engineering weaponizes human behavior and organizational trust, turning routine business processes into costly avenues for enterprise compromise.

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The Top User-Driven Cyber Threats Targeting Law Firms

Law firms sit on some of the most sensitive and valuable data in the enterprise, and attackers have built an entire playbook around exploiting the users who handle it. Learn how four dominant threat vectors are targeting legal sector workflows in 2026 and what it takes to stop attacks at the User Layer.

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April 21, 2026
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Webinars

User Risk in Cybersecurity: Exploring the Primary Driver of Modern Breaches

View the session on demand to examine the role of user behavior in today’s threat landscape and the strategies security leaders are using to mitigate enterprise user risk.

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March 23–25, 2026
March 23–25, 2026
April 20, 2026
41 minute watch
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Frequently Asked
Questions

Common questions about Dune Security for legal and professional services organizations.
How is Dune different from traditional phishing simulations?
Is Dune safe for environments handling privileged communications?
Does Dune support voice and messaging attacks?
Can Dune simulate attacks specific to legal workflows?
How quickly can we deploy Dune?

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