Keeping confidentiality and trust at the centre of everything

Keeping confidentiality
and trust at the
centre of everything

In summary, legal firms can continue to enhance their resilience in the face of cyber criminals’ ever-increasing ingenuity and a turbulent geopolitical landscape by ensuring critical data assets are protected appropriately and supported by a proven and demonstrable recovery strategy by working with expert service providers that focus on integrating with in-house teams.

Ensuring measures any measures implemented will meet insurance providers’ evolving requirements is critical to having confidence of successful claims, when this proves necessary, while working closely with trusted technology partners will ensure cyber-resilience goals need not limit the drive for powerful, data-driven insights.

Finally, in spite of the evolving range of threats firms face, cyber-resilience initiatives should not be seen as an onerous drain on time and resources. After all, client confidentiality and trust are of paramount importance for all legal firms. Investments in cyber-resilience and ransomware protection should therefore be viewed as investments - even a badge of honour - to help firms grow their client base. Showing prospective clients the measures that have been taken to protect, mitigate and recover against ransomware attacks will promote greater client confidence and allow the new relationship to be built on a strong foundation, helping firms position themselves as a reassuring presence in uncertain times and - ultimately - supporting the sector’s ongoing growth.

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1. https://cybersecurityventures.com/cybercrime-damage-costs-10-trillion-by-2025/
2. https://www.sra.org.uk/sra/research-publications/risk-outlook-report-information-security-cybercrime/
3 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-62506039

About the Author:

Rhodri Stone
Head of Cloud and Managed Services Solutions, Exponential-e

Rhodri is focused on working with customer stakeholders to design and delivering IT services that map directly to organisation objectives and growth. Rhodri’s team follow these core values of engagement into our varied customer base, and our purpose is to provide a best-in-class design and consultancy experience.

His experience spans 22 years in IT covering support and management, design and implementation of traditional and Cloud-based architecture across private and public sectors.