Cyber Services
Secure Your Success: Cyber Solutions for the Modern Legal Services organisation
As the legal services industry faces a plethora of new risks and challenges amidst an evolving threat and regulatory landscape, tackling cyber resilience has never been more vital for firms. But with barriers such as legacy technology or manual data processing proving a hindrance to many, achieving operational resilience and mitigating risk can be extremely challenging.
Data breaches pose significant threats to legal companies, including millions of pounds of financial losses, reputational damage and regulatory penalties. The exposure of sensitive client and business information can also lead to identity theft and loss of competitive advantage. To mitigate these risks, law firms must implement strong cybersecurity measures, such as multi-factor authentication, encryption and continuous monitoring. Regular security audits, pen tests and vulnerability assessments are essential, along with a robust incident response plan to manage breaches effectively.
Our retained Incident Response (IR) is delivered 24/7/365, from a dedicated team accredited by NCSC providing the full spectrum of legal, compliance and communications services. By establishing a Retainer for IR, we ensure that we can promptly mobilise our experienced incident response team, who already have familiarity with your systems, networks and operations.
Conducting thorough due diligence on third-party vendors is essential to protecting your business. This includes assessing security practices, compliance with relevant regulations and potential vulnerabilities. Regular security audits and assessments of these vendors help identify and mitigate risks before they impact the firm. Employing strong contractual agreements that include cybersecurity requirements and incident response protocols further strengthens this defence.
SCC can help firms leverage cybersecurity technologies such as continuous threat monitoring and automated threat response to detect and address potential breaches in real-time. We can also provide an updated incident response plan, ensuring you are well-prepared to manage and mitigate any cybersecurity incidents arising from your supply chain.
The adoption of applied AI and GenAI also introduces substantial regulatory risks, with increasing scrutiny from regulators such as those enforcing the EU AI Act. Law firms need to align their security strategies, particularly in areas like reporting, governance and data privacy, to comply with these emerging regulations.
Companies should aim to publish guidelines that support firms through the development of AI systems and ensure that security still is at the centre of implementation.
Once they have an AI policy in place, supported by a robust project plan, they can control what information is available and to restrict wider system access, including protecting intellectual property, client data or personal information, in line with UK data protection laws and financial regulation.
Law firms should also be particularly proactive in rolling out adoption and socialisation programmes to ensure all users have access to the right tools and understood their capabilities. SCC’s team of AI experts can help your people to fully embrace the power of this technology in a safe and sustainable way through our consultative engagements.
Our Solutions include:
Managed Extended Detection and Response (MXDR)
Vulnerability Management and Remediation
Incident Response
Cyber Maturity Assessment
Penetration Testing.
Outcomes we enable:
Mishcon de Reya (Mischon) are a law firm that aim to help their clients benefit from new economies, new geographic centres of wealth, the new global movement of people and capital and the impact of new technologies and new knowledge. From their offices in London and Singapore and through their association with Karas LLP in Hong Kong they counsel clients around the world.
Law firms are required to manage huge volumes of highly sensitive and confidential data, often having to create multiple stacks of source data, therefore audit trails are critical. Understanding the lifecycle of data and how it moves around the business is also key.
Visibility of the potential attack surface to law firms is therefore extremely important and as a result Mishcon already had a managed Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) service in place. The main challenge they faced with their previous provider was around collaboration and visibility into the day-to-day operation of the Security Operations Centre (SOC) team. An effective managed service should be an extension of the inhouse IT team. In this case it was not. Mishcon referred to their existing SIEM services as just a “black box service” meaning the provider hid behind the SLAs when any “how” questions were asked of them. Mishcon wanted to move away from their existing provider and wanted more granular detail as well as a service improvement plan.
SCC understand that customers require that visibility and transparency and our Managed SIEM Service provides the view of what is going on under the hood, with actionable intelligence. It focuses on the IT hygiene efforts in the areas that pose the most risk to our customers. As a Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) that engages with customers across a range of highly regulated industries, it was standard practice for Mishcon to want to ask detailed questions and understand how SCC’s SOC is set up, what our run books look like and how we triage events.
Our solution was completely aligned to the customer’s requirements and objectives and we provided detailed output and reports. We also provided recommendations for service improvements and added a security layer that was required by the customer. Throughout the process the SCC SOC continually demonstrated expertise by answering Mishcon’s questions in detail and often expanded further to provide a level of assurance to Mishcon, that gave them reassurance that SCC are that future trusted and capable partner Mishcon can build a true value add partnership with.