Comparison
Attorney Armor vs. DIY Vulnerability Scanners
Enterprise vulnerability scanners are excellent tools — for organizations with security engineers to install, tune, and triage them. Law firms usually don't have that staff. Attorney Armor wraps continuous scanning in the layer firms actually need: prioritization, plain-English findings, and evidence mapped to legal-ethics duties.
| Factor | Attorney Armor | DIY scanner (Qualys / Tenable-class tools) |
|---|---|---|
| Who operates it | Runs continuously with no in-house security staff required | Your team installs, configures, tunes, and operates it |
| Output | Severity-ranked findings written for partners and IT providers | Raw vulnerability and CVE listings |
| Legal context | Findings mapped to ABA Rule 1.6 duties and insurer evidence formats | None — generic technical output |
| False-positive triage | Findings prioritized by exploitability and matter sensitivity | Your team's responsibility |
| Attack-surface discovery | Automatic: domains, subdomains, certificates, shadow IT | You define and maintain the asset inventory it scans |
| Total cost | $199–$999/month, all-in | Tool license plus the staff hours to run it well |
The triage problem
A scanner's job ends at a list of findings — often hundreds of items with CVSS scores. Someone has to decide which three matter this week, what they mean for client confidentiality, and whether the fix worked. Without a security engineer, that list becomes shelf-ware, and shelf-ware doesn't satisfy an insurer's questionnaire.
When DIY genuinely makes sense
If your firm employs dedicated security engineers, a scanner you operate yourself can be the right raw tool — and Attorney Armor's continuous assessment complements it by watching the external surface your internal tools don't see. If nobody on staff owns security full-time, the platform model is the realistic path to coverage that actually happens.
Frequently asked questions
Is Attorney Armor just another scanner?
No. Scanning is one input. The platform adds attack-surface discovery, continuous scheduling, exploitability-based prioritization, partner-readable reporting, remediation tracking, and the compliance evidence layer — the parts a raw scanner leaves to you.
We already own a scanner license. Is Attorney Armor redundant?
Not necessarily. Many firms keep internal tooling for internal networks and use Attorney Armor for the external perimeter, client-facing portals, and the evidence layer insurers and clients ask for.
What happens when a scanner finds something critical?
In a DIY model, whoever reads the report decides what to do. Attorney Armor alerts you immediately with severity, context, and a remediation playbook your IT provider can execute directly.