Consider these Four Pillars of Cybersecurity as your framework (Reuters)
By John Bandler. Published June 17, 2026, Reuters Legal News
We continue our cybersecurity series with a method to organize it using my Four Pillars of Cybersecurity, and we put it in the context of cybersecurity frameworks, a type of best practice.
These Four Pillars guide security improvements on humans, computers, data, and networks. We introduced them in prior articles as we discussed other aspects of cybersecurity, especially management.
We started with the emphasis upon management of cybersecurity because it is essential for law firms (and any other type of organization). Good management ensures reasonable decisions are made and proper actions taken to protect the organization and its information systems.
If your organization does not yet have a cybersecurity program, establishing one should be a first step, as I covered previously. (See, “Build your cybersecurity program in your firm or organization,” Reuters Legal News, Dec. 15, 2025,[link]). Build the cybersecurity program by putting a person in charge, having a written policy, training, and actively managing cybersecurity with an eye to continual improvement.
Within this process of managing cybersecurity are the basics, which means dozens of things to do. Organizing them is aided through a framework.
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- Build your cybersecurity program in your firm or organization, December 15, 2025 (Reuters)
- Maintain and improve your cybersecurity program in your firm or organization, February 17, 2026 (Reuters)
- Cybersecurity basics are important for sophisticated lawyers and firms too (and everyone else), April 16, 2026 (Reuters)
- Consider these Four Pillars of Cybersecurity as your framework, June 17, 2026 (Reuters) (this page)
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