Today, the investment decisions the law firm must make
are not just about the clients it wants to serve and where to grow
tomorrow. Increasingly, they're also about the technology
strategy it needs to adopt to survive and be
successful.
The recent reports on cyber risks faced by the legal sector from
Government Communications Headquarters, the UK's government
intelligence, security and cyber agency, and France's Agence
Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes
d'Information (its national cybersecurity agency), should have
sent a shock wave through the profession.
This is not by any means the first time that such reports have
been issued about the risks facing the legal profession: in fact it
is the second report directed at the UK legal sector by GCHQ in a
year. It illustrates just how big a target legal businesses are for
hackers and fraudsters, how international this threat is, and also
how vulnerable many legal organisations are to this kind of threat,
particularly
