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Practical thinking on security, operations, and AI for professional firms — from the Rival Practice team.

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SecurityJune 15, 2026

The Death of Email Attachments: How Authenticated Client Portals Eradicate Phishing Vectors

Authenticated client portals eliminate email phishing vectors, spoofing, and credential harvesting by routing support traffic through secure JSON API endpoints directly into encrypted, audited database tables.

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SecurityInfrastructureMay 4, 2026

Why Is a Shared Database a Legal Security Risk, and How Does Single-Tenant Data Isolation Solve It?

Single-tenant database isolation eliminates cross-firm leakage, lateral exploits, and noisy-neighbor risk that multi-tenant CMS platforms expose legal practices to.

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