Legal Tech Roundup: Pillsbury Announces Partnership with Mandiant FireEye

• Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman announced this week it will begin recommending that its clients hire cybersecurity company FireEye to conduct a risk assessment as part of the due diligence phase of a merger.

Such assessments take one-week at minimum and examine infrastructure security and data safeguards; while a more thorough assessment of a company’s cybersecurity can take three to six weeks at minimum, said Holly Ridgeway, director of information security programs at FireEye’s Mandiant.

“Part of the problem right now is that sufficient time isn’t allowed before the acquisition” to conduct a cyber assessment, said Ridgeway.

She said her company will also refer ...