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Overview

Cyber security in the Legal sector

As a professional in the legal sector, your reputation depends on being able to protect the highly sensitive and confidential information entrusted to you by your clients. But with attacks on legal firms on the rise, how do you ensure your organisation remains secure?

60% of law firms were affected by an information security and data loss incident in 2018. As attacks become increasingly targeted and damaging it’s important to ensure you take appropriate steps to protect your organisation and its clients.

Challenges

Do these challenges sound familiar?

Safeguarding legacy systems alongside new technologies
Protecting confidential client data
Balancing cyber security and system accessibility
Detecting and responding to data breaches
Defending growing network infrastructure
Meeting compliance requirements
52%
of law firms reported an attack to the NCSC in 2018
80%
of UK law firms in 2019 had live server vulnerabilities
€20 m
maximum GDPR fine for an unreported breach

Key questions

Key security questions you need to ask

  • How is client data processed and protected?
  • How often is digital infrastructure tested?
  • Are suitable controls in place to detect and respond to threats?
  • Are staff sufficiently trained about cyber security risks?
  • Are controls in place to mitigate insider threats?
  • Are systems backed up to avoid data loss in the event of ransomware?

Compliance

Helping you achieve regulatory compliance

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At Redscan, our experience of working with organisations across the legal sector means that we better understand the security challenges your organisation faces and how to address them.

We are experienced at providing law firms and barristers’ chambers to ensure information security controls and processes meet the latest compliance standards.

Whether it is compliance with the GDPR or DPA 2018, PCI DSS or other regulatory requirements, we’ll provide MDR and pen testing services that will help to better protect your firm and your clients.

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Services

Our award-winning services

Redscan’s security services are designed to provide the vital assistance needed to make tangible improvements to your organisation’s cyber security posture.

ThreatDetect MDR

Managed Detection and Response

Award-winning support to rapidly detect and respond to the latest threats 24/7

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Specialist engagements to uncover and address hidden cyber security risks

Assessment Services

Specialist engagements to uncover and address hidden cyber security risks

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Managed Security Services

Expert help to manage and monitor your choice of security technologies

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What our customers say

5/5 - based on 19 Reviews
"We’re very pleased with the service we receiveAcross the whole service, whether it’s the SOC or the technical account management team, Redscan looks after us very well.”
IT Director
Asset Management Firm
“Thanks to Redscan, we’re in an infinitely better place now. We have got more visibility than we ever had, and critically, in all the right places. I can now sleep easy knowing that Redscan’s expertise is protecting our business.”
Head of Technology & Cybersecurity
Housebuilding Company
“If you want a solution where someone will look after you 24/7 and give you a very flexible, professional and agile service - you want Redscan.”
Lead IT Infrastructure Architect
Global Restaurant Chain
“With so much organisational change, this is a time of incredible pressure on our small team. Partnering with Redscan is making it easier for us to address the security challenges of business consolidation.”
Head of IT Security
Global Plastics Manufacturer
“The penetration testing that Redscan performed provided some very credible findings and outlined clear improvements that we were able to implement. The whole process raised the bar of our cyber security defences.”
Head of Cyber Security
Specialist Bank
“Redscan staff are always on hand to provide swift, clear advice. They help us keep a constant eye on our network and respond quickly to incidents to ensure systems remain operational.”
IT Director
Private Hospital
“I can offer a higher level of assurance at board level about our information security now. Redscan gives us a broader lens on a complex and changing environment.”
IT Director
Global Asset Manager
“We now know we’ve got eyes on our critical assets and that those events are being looked at, scrutinised, triaged and qualified as legitimate or false positives. That is night and day in contrast with where we were before our relationship with Redscan.”
Head of Technology & Cybersecurity
Housebuilding Company
"Redscan's cost effective service gives us peace of mind that we are doing all we can to protect our clients, our business, our staff, our counterparties and other partners."
Head of IT Infrastructure
Asset Management Firm
“Faster incident alerting enables us to better understand what is going on in our network and react more quickly. From an advice side of things, it’s great to be able to talk to knowledgeable people and discuss solutions to help mitigate our security risks.”
Head of IT Security
Global Plastics Manufacturer
“With Redscan, we are able to understand and quickly identify any threats. Redscan’s support gives us the freedom to feel more secure and be more productive.”  
Head of IT
Global Shipping Company
“Redscan’s hands on approach identified security flaws that had previously been overlooked by other vendors.”  
Technical Operations Manager
Spread Betting Firm
“By working in partnership with Redscan, we have significantly improved our operational resilience.”  
Head of Cyber Security
Specialist bank
“Thanks to Redscan we now have a solution that gives us the ability to monitor, isolate and eliminate threats across our IT infrastructure.”
Head of IT
Private Hospital
"Should I need any security testing again in the future, Redscan would be my first port of call!"
Project Analyst/Developer
Life Insurance Provider
“We have been very impressed by the quality of Redscan’s engagement, communication and reporting. We will not hesitate to use them for any future testing requirements.”      
Information Security Officer
Investment Advisory
“The personal approach is something I noticed from my first engagement with Redscan and it is still true today. We have 30 locations worldwide and it is valuable to have a third party being proactive in identifying potential security issues.”
Head of IT
Global Shipping Company
“Services like these are few and far between.”
Head of IT Infrastructure
Asset Management Firm
“I value the fact that Redscan aggregates insight about the cyber-attacks it sees on other customers and retrospectively applies it to other organisations, so we all benefit from that knowledge.”  
Head of Cyber Security
Specialist bank

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  • An agnostic approach to technology selection
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Securing perimeter products must be a priority for organisations as threat actors are increasingly targeting insecure self-hosted products at the corporate network perimeter, according to the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).
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Insider threats an increasing concern for UK companies
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78% of organisations hit by repeat ransomware attacks after paying
A new report shows that almost four in five organisations that paid a ransom demand were hit by a second ransomware attack, often by the same threat actor. Almost two-thirds (63%) of those organizations were asked to pay more the second time.
19th February 2024
UK companies lost £31bn due to security breaches in 2023
More than 1.5 million UK businesses were compromised by threat actors in 2023, with a total cost of more than £31.5bn, according to new research.