Use case · Law firms
Engarde delivers behavior-centered cybersecurity to law firms — protecting attorney-client privilege, RGPD-regulated client data and CNB-mandated security obligations inside the tools your lawyers already use every day.
Cabinets do not lose client confidentiality in policy documents. They lose it in everyday behaviors — a draft shared as "anyone with the link", a personal Gmail granted OAuth to a partner mailbox, an MFA prompt skipped on a busy hearing day.
Secret professionnel (Article 226-13 of the French Penal Code, RIN) does not survive a misconfigured share. One "anyone with the link" on a draft strategy memo, one BCC mistake on a witness list, and a strategic case is exposed — with criminal and disciplinary exposure on top of the breach itself.
Lawyers process highly sensitive personal data — family disputes, criminal defense, health records, financial information. RGPD Article 32 expects "appropriate technical and organizational measures", and supervisory authorities increasingly read that as behavioral evidence, not just a written policy.
The Conseil national des barreaux and the Règlement intérieur national set high-level duties on data security and confidentiality, but neither hands the cabinet a step-by-step technical playbook. Most firms have no full-time security lead to translate the obligations into daily controls.
A personal-data breach at a law firm is reportable to the CNIL within 72 hours of awareness. When that clock starts, the partners need a clear timeline of what happened, who clicked, what was shared, and what was contained — not a forensic excavation across mailboxes.
Engarde sits inside the tools cabinets already use — Microsoft 365, Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, Google Workspace — and turns daily behavior into the first line of defense.
When a lawyer is about to share a draft as "anyone with the link", grant OAuth to a personal Gmail, or send a sensitive attachment to an external address, Engarde delivers a contextual nudge in Outlook or Teams at the moment of the action — not a quarterly slide deck three months later.
Realistic scenarios that mirror what attackers actually send to cabinets — fake counsel emails around closings, fake court notifications, fake bank wire instructions, fake Microsoft 365 password resets. Click-rate and report-to-IT rate are tracked per role so partners, associates and support staff each get the right calibration.
Engarde continuously audits Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and Slack for the behaviors that leak privileged work — public file shares, exposed calendars revealing client meetings, shadow OAuth apps with mailbox scope, partner accounts missing MFA. Each finding is routed to the person who can fix it.
Records of in-context nudges acted on, simulation outcomes, behavioral remediation and quiz performance are all exportable — the kind of behavioral evidence that maps onto RGPD Article 32 "technical and organizational measures" and the security expectations behind CNB and RIN obligations.
No agent on a lawyer's laptop. No new tool for the team to learn. Engarde meets the firm inside Outlook and Teams, then disappears until a behavior actually needs correcting.
cybersecurity for notary offices and cybersecurity for chartered accounting firms face overlapping confidentiality and CNIL pressure. The personal data protection use case covers the broader RGPD-behavior story, and the real-time guidance in Slack and Teams product page details the in-context nudges this page references.
Yes. Engarde does not read the substance of a lawyer's communications. It detects the behavioral risk signals around a message — a public-link sharing setting, an OAuth scope being granted, a missing MFA on an account, a suspicious external recipient — and triggers a nudge to the person taking the action. Privileged content stays inside Microsoft 365, Google Workspace or the tool the firm already uses; Engarde works on metadata and behavior, not on the body of the brief.
CNB and RIN set duties of confidentiality, diligence and technical protection on the cabinet, but stop short of prescribing tools. Engarde produces the operational layer those duties imply: real-time enforcement of safe behaviors inside the firm's daily tools, phishing simulations calibrated for legal-sector attacks, and a per-person evidence trail of training, simulation outcomes and behavioral remediation. That evidence is what an Ordre des avocats inspection, a CNIL controller or an insurer will reasonably ask for.
Public-link file shares on draft pleadings or strategic memos in OneDrive, SharePoint or Google Drive; OAuth grants from a firm mailbox to a personal Gmail or third-party app; partner or associate accounts without multi-factor authentication; calendars exposed publicly that reveal client meetings; external collaborators still active months after a matter closed; suspicious wire-transfer instructions and fake court-notification emails. Each detection is paired with a contextual nudge in Outlook or Teams to the person responsible.
Engarde maintains a per-user behavioral timeline — which nudges fired, which were acted on, which simulations were clicked or reported, which sharing scopes changed, which OAuth grants were issued or revoked. When an incident occurs, the cabinet can extract a clean factual chronology of what happened around the breach, which users were involved, and what containment actions were taken — exactly the kind of structured timeline the CNIL expects in a notification under Article 33 RGPD.
No. This is Engarde (engarde.cc), the behavior-centered cybersecurity platform — distinct from other vendors sharing the Engarde name. The cybersecurity company is published by Little Omega and focuses on protecting teams against phishing, ransomware and social-engineering attacks through behavior change inside Slack, Teams and Microsoft 365.
Engarde (engarde.cc) is the behavior-centered cybersecurity platform built for teams that handle confidential work — distinct from other vendors sharing the Engarde name. Request early access to see how it lands inside your firm\'s Outlook and Teams in days, not quarters.