The threats of business email compromise: How the cybercrime theft is committed,
plus strategies and tips for cybersecurity and prevention (2026 CLE)
On Friday May 15, 2026 from 1:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. John Bandler will present this CLE about the cybercrime of business email compromise for attorneys. It is virtual through the MyLawCLE platform. Then three other presenters will take the program until 2:00pm, for two hours of CLE total.
Attorneys will earn CLE credits (continuing legal education), and that is through MyLawCLE, and see their description.
Here are the landing pages:
- MyLawCLE: https://mylawcle.
com/products/business-email- compromise-and-wire-fraud- liability-prevention-response- and-professional- responsibility-for-legal- practitioners/ - Federal Bar Association CLE: https://federalbarcle.
org/product/business-email- compromise-and-wire-fraud- liability-prevention-response- and-professional- responsibility-for-legal- practitioners/ - Use promotional coupon BCWFL26 to access free. **
CLE Materials include
- My speaker bio:
- About me on this site
- About me at MyLawCLE - See their site
- A PDF of the slide deck will be provided by the CLE organizers for registered attendees
- BEC specific resources
- Email based funds transfer frauds
- Email based funds transfer fraud details
- Email security
- Email security for attorneys and law firms (and anyone else)
- Business Email Compromise and Email Based Funds Transfer Frauds and Prevention (15 minute video), https://youtu.be/4UjVKNeSzrA
- The cybersecurity program
- Cybersecurity program
- Overview of Bandler's DIY cybersecurity program
- Bandler's cybersecurity program
- Build Bandler's cybersecurity program yourself
- Cybersecurity Policy (Free Version)
- See my Bandler Cybersecurity Program DIY program video course either on YouTube or Udemy
- All of my Bandler Cybersecurity Program DIY webpages here (videos embedded at bottom of each page)
- Cybersecurity basics
- Cybersecurity
- Cybersecurity main goals
- Cybersecurity Tips from John Bandler (one page tip sheet)
- Bandler's Four Pillars of Cybersecurity
- Introduction to Cybersecurity and Information Security
- Cybersecurity book (2017) overview page
- Cybercrime
- The Three Priority Cybercrime threats to protect against, including:
- Cybersecurity law and cyberlaw
- Cyberlaw
- Cyberlaw book
- Cyberlaw book resources
- Data law
- Privacy
- CIPP US Certification
- Management, policy work
- Five Components for Policy Work
- Cyber Insurance
- Risk
- Cybersecurity and Working from Home
- Cybersecurity related forms you can use to inventory the information assets in your home or small organization (computer devices, data, accounts, network, etc.)
- Cybersecurity and Cybercrime Prevention (a comprehensive course outline, with extensive linked resources)
- Cybersecurity for attorneys (the evergreen version of this page, which is continually updated, and includes a short article at the front followed by a comprehensive list of CLE resources)
Longer articles by John about cybersecurity, law, and lawyers
John is a regular contributing columnist on cybercrime and cybersecurity for Reuters Legal News and Westlaw Today. You can find his articles as clean PDFs with no ads starting at https://johnbandler.com/reuters-articles/
- Cybersecurity basics are important for sophisticated lawyers and firms too (and everyone else), John Bandler, Reuters Legal News, April 16, 2026, hosted here and available at Reuters at, https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/cybersecurity-basics-are-important-sophisticated-lawyers-firms-too-everyone-else--pracin-2026-04-16/
- Maintain and improve your cybersecurity program in your firm or organization, John Bandler, Reuters Legal News, February 17, 2026, hosted here and available at Reuters at, https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/maintain-improve-cybersecurity-program-your-firm-or-organization--pracin-2026-02-17/
- Build your cybersecurity program in your firm or organization, John Bandler, Reuters Legal News, December 15, 2025, hosted here and available at Reuters at https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/build-your-cybersecurity-program-your-firm-or-organization--pracin-2025-12-15/
- The cybersecurity program of your firm: a quiz and roadmap for next steps, John Bandler, Reuters Legal News, October 21, 2025, hosted here and available at Reuters at https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/cybersecurity-program-your-firm-quiz-roadmap-next-steps--pracin-2025-10-21/
- Email security for attorneys and law firms (and anyone else), John Bandler, Reuters Legal News, August 25, 2025, hosted here and available at Reuters at https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/email-security-attorneys-law-firms-anyone-else-2025-08-25/
- Attorneys on alert for cybersecurity threats: New York's new CLE training requirement, John Bandler, Reuters Legal News, July 19, 2023, hosted here and available at Reuters at https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/attorneys-alert-cybersecurity-threats-new-yorks-new-cle-training-requirement-2023-07-19/
- A Day in the Life of an Attorney: The Cybersecurity, Technology, and Crime Risks We Face, John Bandler, New York State Bar Association Journal, July/August 2018, Vol 29 No 6, https://johnbandler.com/a-day-in-the-life-of-an-attorney-cybersecurity-technology-crime-risks/
- Cybercrime and Fraud Protection for your Home, Office, and Clients, John Bandler. American Bar Association GP SOLO magazine, Volume 34, Number 5, September/October 2017, https://johnbandler.com/bandler-john-cybercrime-fraud-prevention-aba-gp-solo-septoct-2017/
- Prepare for and Plan Against a Cyberattack, John Bandler, American Bar Association Journal, July 2018, http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/prepare_plan_against_cyberattack
- Network Cybersecurity in Your Home and Office, John Bandler, American Bar Association GP SOLO Magazine, March/April 2018, Vol 35 No. 2, https://johnbandler.com/network-cybersecurity-home-office/
- Lawyers, Drugs and Money: AML in Popular Media, John Bandler, ACAMS Today, March 20, 2018, Vol 17 No. 2, https://www.acamstoday.org/lawyers-drugs-and-money-aml-in-popular-media/
- The Cybercrime Scheme That Attacks Email Accounts and Your Bank Accounts, John Bandler, Huffington Post, August 3, 2017, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-cybercrime-scheme-that-attacks-email-accounts-and_b_59834649e4b03d0624b0aca6, hosted here too.
ABA Model Rules
- ABA Model Rules, https://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibility/publications/model_rules_of_professional_conduct/model_rules_of_professional_conduct_table_of_contents/
- Cornell's LII on the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/model_rules_of_professional_conduct
ABA Formal Opinions
- ABA Formal Opinion 477R (revised May 22, 2017), Securing Communication of Protected Client Information. https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/professional_responsibility/ethics-opinions/aba-formal-opinion-477.pdf
- ABA Formal Opinion 483 (October 17, 2018), Lawyers’ Obligations After an Electronic Data Breach or Cyberattack. https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/professional_responsibility/ethics-opinions/aba-formal-op-483.pdf
- ABA Formal Opinion 498 (March 10, 2021), Virtual Practice.
https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/professional_responsibility/ethics-opinions/aba-formal-opinion-498.pdf
NYS Rules of Professional Conduct for Attorneys
The NYS Rules of Professional Conduct for Attorneys is found in the New York Code of Rules and Regulations (NYCRR) Title 22 (Judiciary) Part 1200 (Rules of Professional Conduct). Or, for short, 22 NYCRR 1200. Relevant are portions on the attorney duties of confidentiality, competence and more. You can find the rules here:
- NYS Rules of Professional Conduct on Westlaw (public access)
- NYS Rules of Professional Conduct via NYSBA with comments as amended through 8/2/2022
- New York State Bar Association (NYSBA), https://nysba.org/attorney-resources/professional-standards/
- NYS Courts - Legacy versions are readily available, individual orders are too, so this link is not as helpful http://ww2.nycourts.gov/rules/jointappellate/index.shtml
NYS cybersecurity CLE requirement (order signed 6/10/2022, effective 1/1/2023 and 7/1/2023)
Attorneys admitted in NYS now must earn CLE in cybersecurity
- NYS Courts Categories of CLE Credit as Defined in the New York State CLE Program Rules 22 NYCRR 1500.2(c)-(h), https://www.nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/ATTORNEYS/CLE/NY-CLE-Program-Rules-22-NYCRR-1500.2c-h.pdf
- NYS Courts FAQs on Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection, https://www.nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/attorneys/cle/Cybersecurity-Privacy-and-Data-Protection-FAQs.pdf
- NYS Courts Guidance Relating to the New Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection Category of CLE Credit, https://www.nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/attorneys/CLE/Cybersecurity-Privacy-and-Data-Protection-Guidance-Document.pdf
- Joint Order of the Judicial Departments of the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court adding a cybersecurity, privacy, and data protection CLE requirement amending Title 22 NYCRR 1500.2 et seq. (and sequence) at this link (link too messy to spell out)
NYS CLE rules
- General CLE information from NYS Courts: https://ww2.nycourts.gov/attorneys/cle
- NYS CLE Program rules here and NYS CLE Regulations & Guidelines here
NYSBA's 2020 recommendation about cybersecurity training (their recommendation became a rule, so just see the rule above)
- NYSBA Recommends Cybersecurity CLE Requirement (2020), https://nysba.org/new-york-state-bar-association-recommends-cybersecurity-requirement-include-cle/
- NYSBA Report recommending cybersecurity CLE, https://nysba.org/app/uploads/2020/06/3.-Report-and-recommendations-of-Committee-on-Technology-and-the-Legal-Profession-Agenda-Item-9-with-comments.pdf
NYC Bar
- NYC Bar, Formal Opinion 2024-3: Ethical Obligations Relating to a Cybersecurity Incident, https://www.nycbar.org/reports/formal-opinion-2024-3-ethical-obligations-relating-to-a-cybersecurity-incident/
About cyber law, privacy law, data law
- See about my new book on cyberlaw.
- See all my research and references, without even having to buy the book.
- Learn about the CIPP/US certification and my course on privacy and cybersecurity law.
John's CLEs for attorneys on cybersecurity
In 2017 my first book was published, Cybersecurity for the Home and Office, The Lawyer's Guide to Taking Charge of Your Own Information Security, from the American Bar Association (ABA).
Since then I have been providing continuing legal education (CLE) to attorneys about securing their information assets.
Some are afraid of technology and cybersecurity but should not be. It is a learning process, everyone can learn and improve.
About MyLawCLE and this CLE
This is my first CLE with MyLawCLE, it is a topic close to my heart and I am excited to work with them.
To explore more of this site:
This page is hosted at https://johnbandler.com/business-email-compromise-cle-2026-5, copyright John Bandler all rights reserved.
This is a page created for a specific CLE event, and after the event is over, this page will not be updated, so see Cybersecurity for attorneys.
Posted 05/08/2026 (building on prior years' work). Updated 05/15/2026.