This week I attended the first LegalFutures.co.uk conference, at which spoke such luminaries as Richard Susskind and Neil Kinsella, as well as some regulator chiefs of whom most of us have only barely heard.
It appears that suspicious activity reports (SARs) made to the Serious Organised Crime Agency are on the increase, according to SOCA's latest report. Does this show an increase in due diligence, or merely that crime is on the up?
Information security is a bit of a given in law firms - it's a given that it occurs, but it's not always actually done. But I still don't think it's sinking in that it can cost a law firm tens of thousands of pounds.