An increased reliance on technology goes hand-in-hand with growing avenues for cyberthreats, and courts are no strangers to the soaring wave of data breaches.
In an E-Courts 2022 Conference session titled “Tales From the (Cyber) Crypt,” court officials and court IT administrators from different states and counties shared their own data breach horror stories. Many could have been prevented with better firewalls and staffwide education around phishing attempts and multifactor authentication. However, some attacks were inevitable as cyberthreats are becoming a daily event as opposed to a rarity across U.S. courts.