Four common infosec legal risks and how to mitigate them

**Executive Summary:** This article outlines four common legal risks arising from information security shortcomings—failing to implement risk-based controls, overlooking vendor security, not documenting or following security policies, and excluding legal teams during incident response—and provides practical mitigations such as using recognized frameworks (e.g., NIST), requiring vendor security assurances and breach notification clauses, documenting and enforcing policies, and designating counsel to direct incident response to preserve privilege and manage regulatory and notification obligations.