Several months on, data-driven legal and compliance transformation is not simply a matter of optimising efficiency and reducing costs: in the months (and, likely, years) ahead, clients will expect any firms they engage with to be able to demonstrate their commitment to the highest standard of security, compliance, and data protection, and have invested in leading-edge systems around this.
Put simply, legal technology in the areas of cyber security, data protection, disaster recovery, and business must enter the next phase in its evolution, in order to provide clients with complete peace of mind that their data will be kept secure, no matter what.
In particular, as the incident described above demonstrates, firms’ overall operational resilience and ability to recover from the most serious, aggressive ransomware attacks must be carefully considered. With attacks growing in sophistication with each passing month, it is not safe to assume that even the most advanced cyber security infrastructure will be fully infallible. Systems and processes must therefore be established to ensure infrastructure can be restored and data secured with minimal disruption in the event of a successful attack.
