Lawyers and other professionals working to protect clients’ information technology described cybersecurity as a threat that is dynamic, misunderstood and closely related to individual behavior at a conference Tuesday hosted by American Lawyer Media at the New York Sheraton in Times Square.

“For the biggest of law firms, we service the most sophisticated financial institutions in the world, and we were a problem for them,” said Latham & Watkins litigation partner Jennifer Archie, describing where the high-end legal services industry stood on cybersecurity only three or four years ago.