You lock down your network.
You harden endpoints.
You run staff through phishing simulations.

But then someone at your eDiscovery partner logs in from an unknown IP using a shared credential—and suddenly, your firm isexposed.

Third-party access is no longer a niche concern.
It’s the soft underbelly of mostlegal IT environments. And it’s being exploited at scale.

Not by brute-force attackers. But by automation.By token theft. By insider negligence.
And increasingly—by someone whodoesn’t even work at your firm.

Maybe it’s a vendor’s junior support engineer.
Maybe it’s a freelance consultant they brought on.
Maybe it’s an intern who re-used a password.

Either way, their access is now your problem.
And if you can’t detect it in real time, stop it cold, and prove it post-incident—you’re not secure.

Titan was built to fix this.

Because securing third-party access isn’t justabout giving out the right keys.
It’s about knowing when thosekeys are being misused—and revoking them the moment something feels wrong.

Here’s how legal CIOs can finally take backcontrol of external access without slowing the business down.

The Quiet Explosion of Third-Party Access in Law

In a modern legal practice, collaborationextends far beyond firm walls.

You work with:

·      eDiscovery vendors

·      Expert witnesses

·      Litigation support contractors

·      Legal tech platforms

·      Marketing and communications agencies

·      Freelance consultants

·      Data hosting providers

·      Offshore back-office support

Each one of them needs access to something:
Documents. Platforms. Sharedfolders. Cloud portals. Sometimes even full production systems.

And that access is rarely short-lived.
It’s often poorly scoped, weakly monitored, and seldom revoked on time.

You know this already.
But what you might not know is just how quickly this surface area has grown.

The average midsize law firm now manages dozens—sometimes hundreds—of vendor integrations and external credentials.

Most IT teams have no central system of record.
No visibility into what’s normal.
No detection of what’s risky.

And attackers know it.

They know vendors are the backdoor.
They know law firms aren’twatching closely.
And they know they only need oneover-permissioned session to get inside.

You don’t need to be targeted to be breached.
You just need a carelessvendor—and a moment of silence.

The Real-World Risk: From Convenience to Compromise

Third-party access is often granted for speed.
That speed comes at a price.

Here’s what this looks like in the real world:

A third-party document processing vendor has access to a matter-specific SharePoint folder.
They onboard a new junior contractor and send them login credentials.

The contractor:

·      Logs in from a personal laptop

·      Connects via unsecured Wi-Fi

·      Opens and downloads files they weren’t supposed to see

·      Reuses a password that’s already been compromised

·      Leaves a session token exposed in their browser


Within hours, that token is reused by an attacker.
And now your document management system is quietly compromised.

No malware.
No firewall alerts.
Just a perfectly valid login.

You’re not looking at a phishing attack.
You’re looking at a trusted identity misused—and no one knew to stop it.

By the time it’s caught, sensitive client data has been scraped.
You’re in breach notification territory.
Your insurance carrier wants to see evidence of vendor vetting and access monitoring.
Your client wants to know how this was even possible.

You don’t have good answers.
Just audit logs you haven’t looked at—and reputational damage you can’t undo.

Now imagine that risk at scale.
Across every vendor. Every contractor. Every integration.

Still think VPNs and NDAs are enough?

Why Traditional Third-Party Access Controls Don’t Work Anymore

The old way of managing vendor access is broken.

Here’s why.

Static credentials
Most vendors are given long-lived credentials. Rarely rotated. Sometimes shared internally. Almost never monitored in real time.

Over-permissioned roles
To avoid delays, access is over-provisioned. “Just give them access to the whole folder” becomes the norm. Least privilege is a theory, not a practice.

No behavioural baselines
You don’t know how vendorsnormally behave—so you can’t flag what’s unusual. This makes anomaly detectionalmost impossible.

No real-time response
If something risky happens, you find out after the fact. Maybe. Meanwhile, exfiltration has already occurred.

No visibility across integrations
You’ve got one tool watching fileservers. Another watching identity. A third watching endpoints. None of themspeak to each other. And none offer a clear picture of third-party behaviour.

So the risk builds quietly.
And when it hits, the breach doesn’t just come through the front door—it walks in with a valid badge.

Titan was designed to shut that down.

Titan’s Approach: Real-Time Access Intelligence, Not Just Control

Titan doesn’t stop at access control.
It goes further—into real-time access scoring, behavioural context, and instant mitigation.

Because in today’s landscape, it’s not enough to know who logged in.
You need to know whether thatl ogin makes sense.

Here’s what Titan does differently.

Contextual Risk Scoring for Every Login

Titan continuously monitors every access attempt—internal or external—and scores it in real time.

Factors we evaluate:

·      User identity and role

·      Usual access patterns

·      Time of day and location

·      Device fingerprint

·      Session behaviour

·      Resource sensitivity

If something is off—Titan doesn’t just flag it. It enforces a response:

·      Challenge with step-up authentication

·      Suspend the session

·      Notify the SOC

·      Trigger auto-lock on linked systems

This applies equally to internal staff, external vendors, and machine-to-machine API calls.

Every access is earned—based on context, not just credentials.

Identity-Aware Behavioural Monitoring

Titan doesn’t treat vendors as a single group.
It understands the differencesbetween:

·      A trusted eDiscovery partner working in-officehours from known IPs

·      A freelance paralegal logging in remotely to upload summaries

·      An IT services firm accessing infrastructure on an ad-hoc basis


It builds individual baselines.
And flags anomalies perentity—not just per user type.

This is how we detect:

·      Privilege creep

·      Credential sharing

·      Off-hours data scraping

·      Rogue logins using stale credentials

You can’t defend what you can’t see.
Titan gives you eyes on every third-party touchpoint—without guesswork.

Session-Aware Access with Real-Time Mitigation

Titan doesn’t just monitor access—it watches theentire session.

We detect and correlate behaviours like:

·      High-speed document access

·      Repeated failed attempts across systems

·      Data movement between folders

·      Attempts to modify permissions

·      File downloads followed by suspicious network activity

If a session turns risky, Titan can:

·      Immediately terminate the session

·      Lock the user’s account

·      Block data transfers

·      Alert incident response teams

·      Start a forensic capture for evidence

No delay. No tickets. No second chances.

Vendor and Integration Inventory with Live Risk View

Most firms can’t even list all the vendors who have access to their environment.
Titan fixes that.

We maintain a live inventory of all:

·      Third-party identities

·      Active sessions

·      Historical access logs

·      Integration points

·      Behavioural risk scores

It’s searchable. Auditable. Governable.

And it gives you one place to see where the riskis right now—not three tools and a spreadsheet.

Why Legal Firms Need This More Than Ever

Legal firms operate in a trust economy.

You don’t just handle sensitive information.
You handle someone’s future. Their strategy. Their liability. Their secrets.

And when that trust is broken—even indirectly—it costs more than just billable hours.

It costs:

·      Panel status

·      Regulatory standing

·      Cyber insurance premiums

·      Executive careers

·      Long-term client confidence

The legal industry is under increasing scrutiny.
Cyber hygiene isn’t assumed—it’s demanded.
Clients now ask:

·      Who has access to my data?

·      How is it monitored?

·      What’s your third-party policy?

·      Can you show me logs and response timelines?

You don’t get to say, “We’ll get back to you.”
You need the answers at your fingertips.

That’s what Titan provides.

What Legal CIOs Should Focus On Immediately

To get ahead of third-party access risk, your strategy must shift.

Here’s where to focus now.

Map every access point
You can’t protect what you don’t know exists. Build a live inventory of every vendor, integration, and external identity in your environment.

Enforce least privilege—intelligently
Not just access denial.Role-based access tied to context: what, when, where, and how. Titan helpsenforce this dynamically.

Monitor behaviour, not just credentials
Even valid credentials can bemisused. You need to know when access goes off-pattern—and shut it down fast.

Move from alerting to automatic response
You don’t need more alerts. You need fewer, better ones—with options to act immediately. Titan builds that into every workflow.

Bring visibility to your leadership table
Turn third-party access into aboard-level risk metric. Show clients and regulators that your firm doesn’t just talk about security—it enforces it.

The Bottom Line

Vendor access isn’t a checkbox issue.
It’s a breach waiting to happen—or a risk waiting to be neutralised.

And in today’s legal landscape, that risk isgrowing fast.

Because attackers don’t need to come throughyour front door.
They’ll walk in behind someonewho already has a badge.

Titan stops that.

By scoring every access.
Watching every session.
Understanding every user.
And responding in real time when something’s off.

You don’t have to slow your business to secure it.
You just have to see it clearly—and act faster than the breach.

That’s what Titan does.