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Legal

Client confidentiality is the whole business, and law firms are squarely in attackers’ sights for transaction and conveyancing fraud.

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01

The pressure

Confidentiality, or nothing.

Law firms hold highly sensitive client data and move client money, making them prime targets for transaction and conveyancing fraud. Clients increasingly demand evidence of security in their own supplier audits.

02

Challenges we hear

The pressures specific to law firms.

  • Protecting client confidentiality and privilege
  • Meeting SRA expectations on security and resilience
  • Supplier and third-party due diligence
  • Secure document and matter sharing with clients
  • Ransomware that can halt a practice
  • Business continuity when systems go down
03

Frameworks that apply

The standards in play.

  • Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus
  • ISO 27001 (often requested in client supplier audits)
  • UK GDPR
04

How we help

Protection and proof, joined up.

  • Email security and anti-impersonation to stop transaction fraud
  • Identity and access hardening
  • ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials, kept audit-ready
  • Awareness training tuned to legal-sector scams

A client asking for ISO 27001?

We’ll help you answer the supplier audit honestly, and put the controls behind the answer.

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