• Legal Firms the Target of Cyber Attacks – What You Need to Know 

    • 24th August 2023
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Legal
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    The rise in the popularity of the Internet has presented businesses with a whole new world of opportunities, such as a larger pool of potential clients and increased networking platforms. However, it has also opened the doors wide to a new type of crime; cyber attacks.   Many different sectors fall prey to these attacks, however

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  • Remote Working for Solicitors – Have you Updated Your Security Policies?

    • 8th June 2022
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Business, Legal, Security
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    Research by the British Chambers of Commerce and IT company, Cisco, found that more than half of the 1,000 UK firms surveyed believe that their IT systems have been left more exposed to cyber-attacks since the huge increase in people working from home during the pandemic. Cyber attack victims The survey, which covered companies from all sectors and of all sizes,

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  • The Legal Sector: The Latest Updates in Cyber Security

    • 16th May 2022
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Legal, Professional Services, ransomware, Security, Strategy
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    Mitigation against cyber crime, i.e. effective cyber security practices, is something that you need to be constantly vigilant about. This is especially true of certain sectors given the type and volume of personal data they manage: the legal sector is one of these. A recent review conducted by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) explored how

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  • How Your Solicitors or Law Firm Can Avoid Getting Fined £98k

    • 15th April 2022
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Legal, Professional Services, Security
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    When people think about cyber-attacks, they tend to think about the high-profile attacks on large multinational organisations e.g., British Airways, Garmin etc. This tends to lull small businesses into a sense of false security believing that it won’t happen to them, which can be an extremely costly mistake in terms of time, money, and reputation.

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