Security & Information Governance
ICO approves legal services certification scheme
Security & Information Governance
February 13, 2024
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has today (13 February) formally approved a certification scheme aimed at UK legal service providers who process personal data. Certification schemes were introduced under the
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LegalRM and Aderant obtain ISO 27001 and SOC 2 security certifications
Security & Information Governance
January 24, 2024
LegalRM, the UK-headquartered company behind the iCompli information governance platform, announces today (24 January) that it has achieved a global certification for ISO 27001. ISO 27001 is the international standard
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Report: More than half of data breaches at UK legal firms are caused by insiders
Security & Information Governance
January 11, 2024
An analysis of data from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) covering Q3 2022 – Q2 2023 by NetDocuments shows that 60% of identified data breaches in the UK legal sector
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ICYMI: Hackers accessed audio visual in-court technology network in Victoria, Australia
Security & Information Governance
January 10, 2024
Hackers have accessed the visual in-court technology network of Court Services Victoria (CSV) in Australia, impacting Victoria’s courts and tribunals. The cyber attack led to the disruption of the audio
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Judith Flournoy: “Some ‘new’ tech may be in Gartner’s trough of despair”
Security & Information Governance
January 2, 2024
Judith Flournoy is CIO of Am Law 200 law firm Kelley Drye & Warren, who in the past year has focused heavily on the firm’s governance and records management capability.
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CMS becomes the latest law firm to fall victim to LockBit cyber-attack
Security & Information Governance
December 15, 2023
International law firm CMS has become the latest to fall victim to a LockBit cyber-attack, which the firm told Legal IT Insider is isolated to CMS Spain. CMS did not
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CTS suffers service outage after cyberattack
Security & Information Governance
November 24, 2023
UK-headquartered legal managed security provider CTS has suffered a cyberattack that is preventing customers from accessing its systems. The company says that it is working with a leading global cyber
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Allen & Overy suffers cyber attack impacting “small number of storage servers”
Security & Information Governance
November 9, 2023
Allen & Overy has suffered a cyber attack in what is being reported on social media to be by ‘ransomware as a service’ (RaaS) group Lockbit. According to posts on
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ICYMI: Proofpoint to acquire email security rival Tessian
Security & Information Governance
November 2, 2023
US cybersecurity and compliance company Proofpoint Inc announced this week that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire email security rival Tessian, which applies AI to automatically detect
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Arctic Wolf provides suggested fixes for ServiceNow potential data exposure flaw
Security & Information Governance
October 26, 2023
Arctic Wolf has published its recommendations on the maintenance actions that ServiceNow customers should take after the US software company on 20 October issued a fix for a potential misconfiguration
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LegalRM hires Antony Wells and Raj Chambore as sales director and global pre-sales manager
Security & Information Governance
October 9, 2023
UK-founded information governance vendor LegalRM has hired Antony Wells as its new sales director for UK, Ireland & Northern Europe, while Raj Chambore joins as global pre-sales manager, we can reveal.
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Clyde & Co and former partner referred to UK disciplinary tribunal over alleged AML failures
Security & Information Governance
August 9, 2023
The Solicitors Regulation Authority announced on its website today (9 August) that it will refer Clyde & Co and former shipping partner Ed Mills-Webb to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal for
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TalkingTech Podcast: Delivering exceptional cybersecurity in the face of real-world challenges
Security & Information Governance
July 28, 2023
Firms have multiple obligations when it comes to providing adequate, and particularly exceptional, security operations. But there is a myriad of logistical or practical issues that stand in the way.
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Guest post: Strengthening cyber defences – The latest guidance for law firms
Security & Information Governance
July 3, 2023
By Tim Dinsmore, director of Appurity In an increasingly digitised and dispersed world, the legal sector has become a prime target for cyberattacks. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) on
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OpenAI and Microsoft face class action lawsuit for allegedly violating copyright and privacy laws
Security & Information Governance
June 29, 2023
OpenAI, the company behind GPT and ChatGPT, is being sued for allegedly violating copyright and privacy laws when it scraped the internet to train its groundbreaking AI technology. The claim
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The UK Cyber Threat Report – “If you only read one cyber report this year, read this one”
Security & Information Governance
June 26, 2023
Andrew Powell, CIO of Macfarlanes The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) released a Cyber Threat Report on Thursday 22 June, focused on the UK Legal Sector. At the launch event
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Exclusive: Addleshaw Goddard undertakes five gen AI trials with cross-firm engagement
Security & Information Governance
June 15, 2023
Addleshaw Goddard is conducting trials or proof of concepts with five generative AI vendors in the drafting, review, legal review and productivity space, led by a working group that has
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