Secure Cloud Data Storage and sharing for Attorneys
Challenges for the Legal Sector
Law firms have long been prime targets for cybercriminals, with a recent rise in online fraud and theft schemes aimed at lawyers.
Premium Target: Attorneys hold large amounts of sensitive data and, as a result, face a daily barrage of cyberattacks.
Cost of Data Breach: The average cost of a law firm data breach is around $4.65 million.
Impact on Reputation: Your search engine rankings and visits to your website can plummet, and new clients will not trust your ability to keep their information safe.
Overwhelming Data Creation: So much data is created that it is impossible to know who should access what data and how it should be tracked.
Ransomware & Insider Threats: When data is stolen or shared, there is no record or control over who, where, and when data is accessed, leaving the organization open to indefinite extortion, IP loss, and fines.
XQ’s Zero Trust Solution for Legal Data
Improve Client Experience: Easy data sharing from a desktop folder.
Prioritize Client Safety: Prioritize securing client data, which is a cornerstone of trust in legal practice demonstrates a commitment to client confidentiality and regulatory compliance.
Maximizing Operational Efficiency: Know what data you have and automatically control access, encrypt and label your data.
Remote Security for Stolen or Shared Files: Stop ransomware extortion. XQ technology immediately blocks data access, anytime, anywhere – even in the hands of a malicious actor.
Automated Governance & Compliance: Efficient SecOps automation for logging, monitoring and compliance enforcement. Secure data provenance from the source guarantees data integrity.
Fill in the Gaps that Microsoft Leaves
We built XQ with attorneys in mind. See how we’re working to protect you and your clients.
XQ Legal Storage Secure Vault elevates your data storage to zero trust data access (ZTDA) by microsegmenting and encapsulating your data remove access from your existing apps and networks.
Modernizing Client & Attorney Communications
Today, there is no such notion as “privileged communications”: If you’ve ever emailed or texted with a client, litigant, or witness you’ve probably compromised confidential information.
XQ is the first system to secure privileged conversations both at the office, home or on the go.
XQ facilitates secure attorney-client discussions, regardless of location.
M365 integrations protect data across platforms, deterring unauthorized access and preserving patient confidentiality.
Cloud Storage and File Sharing
Zero Trust Data Vault is a seamless storage system for Linux, AWS, Azure, GCP, Microsoft One Drive, and Google Drive.
Any documentation passed amongst attorneys, clients, and third parties is inherently private and must be secured. Affidavits, contracts, demand letters, and other documents regularly pass unsecured with little in the way of security protocols. For many firms, adding a password to a PDF is considered an “advanced security procedure.” In reality, it is a token display to allay client fears and doesn't protect the document or remove liability.
At XQ we’ve built our product around making advanced encryption the default for document and file exchange. Our cross-platform model makes it easy to encrypt and send files from all your favorite apps and devices, meaning you can take encryption with you on the go. Clients can use XQ for free, allowing them to send encrypted documents and making trust a two-way street.
Let’s say you and your team are negotiating an M&A transaction on behalf of a buyer at a target company’s office. If you’re dealing with a savvy firm, you can guarantee that your communications are being monitored. In these instances operational security and timeliness are key. Your team needs to be able to send draft agreements and updates to your client quickly and securely. Luckily, you insist on XQ, meaning terms you draft in the negotiating room can be directly encrypted on your laptop and sent straight to your client’s smartphone for decryption. Now dealmakers can make any negotiating room their home turf.
For maximum security, you can use our API and SDKs to encrypt all of your firm’s outgoing documents. Our API and SDKs operate server-side to build ephemeral encryption directly into your organization. Once XQ’s API and SDKs are implemented in your AWS or Azure server, all of your firm’s contracts and documents that are sent to clients, attorneys, and third parties will be automatically encrypted.
Layer on Email Security for Microsoft
Sending a demand letter via email? How do you know the target actually got the message?
When you encrypt a message with XQ, you also get the added benefit of a spoof-proof email tracking system. Using the XQ dashboard, you can track in real-time whether an email was received, read, and any attempts to decrypt the message. If you see an alert about an attempt to decrypt by someone other than the intended recipient, you can immediately revoke the email.
Now you can be sure when sending a demand letter that it reaches its intended recipient and will be notified when they open and read the message. If you eventually need to pursue litigation, you have documented evidence of delivery. No more “mailer-daemon ate my message.”
Audit & Compliance
What happens if one of your clients is audited and needed to prove they complied with local regulations. Do you know how to organize encryption data for auditing and compliance purposes?
You shouldn’t have to. With XQ, all of your encryption data (including keys) is available for export for audit and compliance purposes. When you use XQ, complying with an audit is just a couple of clicks away.
Additionally, XQ offers key control for data ownership to take us completely out of the loop and allow you to own your data.
Features
Learn about our features and how we’re working to secure your business.
Encrypted Messaging
XQ’s quantum encryption model works cross-platform, allowing for seamless communication with clients and coworkers. With XQ, encryption takes place within the app environment, meaning we never see your data and it is never stored in the cloud. Our system makes it impossible for both the encrypted message and the key to be intercepted together. As added layers of security, you can set a message password needed to initiate decryption and a message expiration date.
File Encryption
The same XQ ephemeral encryption architecture for messages also applies to files. Commonly exchanged documents in mortgage transactions contain highly sensitive lendee information, necessitating high degrees of discretion and security. With XQ, files can be encrypted and sent cross-platform, with the added level of security in a password and expiration date.
Enterprise Dashboard
XQ’s dashboard product allows businesses of any size to create a secure environment that extends outside their organization to include patients, vendors, and other third parties. The dashboard can turn anyone into a security manager and takes just 15 minutes to set up. It allows the manager to create and provision team members, monitor threats in real-time, and monitor team encryption activity. The real-time threat assessment function is the most accurate email tracking system in the market, with real-time updates on attempts to decrypt, read receipts, and the ability to revoke and kill a message. Managers can also set organization policies that limit which platforms XQ encryption can be used in their organization and the expiration dates for messages. The dashboard is optimized for audit and compliance purposes, facilitating data ownership and key control.
API Platform + SDKs
The XQ API platform can be directly integrated into your AWS or Azure server to take complete ownership of your data and streamline encryption practices. With our SDKs, you can automate encryption in your server and mobile application. We’ve refined our SDKs while working with mortgage lenders to develop server-side encryption. The XQ SDKs are being used by mortgage lenders to automatically encrypt all outgoing contracts and insecure communications with lendees.