Network Penetration Testing for Law Firms in New Orleans

 

Law firms in New Orleans and across Louisiana manage highly sensitive information: client communications, case strategies, M&A data, medical records, and financial details. This makes legal practices a prime target for cybercriminals looking to steal or encrypt data for ransom.

Common attacks against law firms include ransomware, phishing, malware, password attacks, and SQL injection against case-management or document-management systems. These techniques are designed to gain unauthorized access to confidential information and disrupt operations. In 2021, the median global cost of a data breach reached $4.24M per incident—and that figure only reflects voluntarily reported cases.

For Louisiana law firms, the impact is not just financial. A breach can lead to loss of client trust, bar complaints, malpractice exposure, and regulatory investigations under privacy and data protection requirements affecting the legal sector. To manage this risk, firms need to regularly review, test, and strengthen their cybersecurity controls, rather than relying on once-and-done IT projects.

Network penetration testing (often called pentesting) is a controlled, ethical hacking exercise where security professionals simulate real-world cyberattacks on your firm’s IT infrastructure. The goal is to identify and safely exploit vulnerabilities before an attacker does. The results help firm leadership:

• Understand real-world risk to email, file servers, practice-management platforms, cloud services, and remote access.

• Validate existing controls such as firewalls, endpoint protection, MFA, and remote-work security.

• Prioritize remediation efforts and security investment based on business impact.

• Support compliance with client security questionnaires, outside counsel guidelines, cyber insurance requirements, and industry best practices for law firms.

 

Louisiana Network Penetration Testing Experience for Legal Practices

 

OCD Tech provides network penetration testing services to law firms in New Orleans and throughout Louisiana, from boutique practices to multi-office firms. Our team combines deep technical expertise with practical understanding of how law firms actually work—billable hours, court deadlines, and the reality that downtime is not an option.

We have extensive experience delivering IT security assessments, penetration tests, and cybersecurity consulting across multiple regulated and data-sensitive industries. For law firms, we focus on:

• Secure remote access for attorneys, staff, and litigation support teams.

• Email security and phishing resilience, including targeted attacks on partners and managing attorneys.

• Protection of document management, e-discovery, and case-management systems.

• Third-party and vendor access risks (expert witnesses, contract attorneys, outsourced services).

• Insider threat and assumed-compromise scenarios, reflecting modern attack techniques.

The outcome is not just a list of vulnerabilities. You receive clear, prioritized guidance on how to fix issues efficiently, in language that both partners and IT teams can act on.

 

Our Network Penetration Testing Methodology

 

OCD Tech follows a structured, repeatable penetration testing methodology designed to mirror how real attackers operate—while keeping your production environment stable and your client data protected. Typical activities include:

• Passive Reconnaissance – Quietly gathering information about your firm’s public footprint, exposed services, and potential attack surfaces without direct interaction.

• Active Reconnaissance – Safely scanning and probing systems to identify open ports, services, and misconfigurations in your internal and external networks.

• Social Engineering – With your approval, testing staff awareness through phishing-style simulations or controlled phone contact to identify human-factor weaknesses.

• Exploitation – Attempting to exploit identified weaknesses to demonstrate how an attacker could gain access to systems, documents, and email.

• Post-Exploitation – Assessing what an attacker could do after initial access, such as retrieving sensitive case files or moving deeper into the network.

• Privilege Escalation – Testing whether a basic user account can be leveraged to gain administrative control over systems or domains.

• Lateral Movement – Evaluating how easily an attacker could move from one compromised system to others—file servers, email, and practice-management platforms.

• Maintaining Access – Demonstrating how long-term, covert access could be maintained if controls are not properly configured.

• Covering Tracks – Reviewing logging and monitoring to determine how easily an attacker could evade detection.

• Reporting & Executive Briefing – Delivering a detailed report and management-level summary with risk ratings, technical detail for IT teams, and prioritized remediation steps aligned to your firm’s risk tolerance and client obligations.

 

National Reach

 

While we frequently work with law firms and professional services organizations in Louisiana, OCD Tech also delivers network penetration testing and security assessments across the U.S., including Boston (MA), New York City (NY), Washington DC, Philadelphia (PA), Dallas (TX), Los Angeles (CA), Chicago (IL), and Baltimore (MD).

 

Contact Our Louisiana Network Penetration Testing Consultants

 

OCD Tech provides network penetration testing, security assessments, and cybersecurity consulting to law firms and professional services organizations in New Orleans and across Louisiana. If you would like to discuss how a tailored penetration test can help protect your clients, meet outside counsel guidelines, and reduce cyber risk, please complete the form below and a team member will follow up with you shortly.