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On June 9, over 20 representatives from the legal vertical joined HBR Consulting and Intapp at Shearman & Sterling LLP in New York for an invitation-only Risk Roundtable. Participants from law firms and investment banking firms came together for a thoughtful discussion that included ideas and insight into how to improve the business acceptance process.
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Wayne Johnson, CEO at Encompass, speaks to LPM about how firms can ensure compliance with the EU’s Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive at a reduced cost
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When employees bring their own devices, they are not always connected to your network. Without being connected there is no opportunity for you to manage those devices. Legal firms are exploring ‘BYOD policies / portable device security’. It’s No. 5 on top technology initiatives in the legal sector.
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Over the last few years, the IT industry buzzword has been cloud. Barriers to adoption, such as security and cost, have largely been overcome and businesses are now fully realising the benefits of the technology.
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Pitching teams took centre stage at Briefing 5P 2016 – presenting all they’d learned about the power of pricing, projects, process, and themselves as empowered business services people
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There was a time not long ago when victims of phishing attacks were considered stupid. But now that the general population is becoming more aware of the phishing problem, the “pool of stupidity” is shrinking. Easy prey is becoming more difficult to find, so phishing is evolving to new levels of sophistication. Attacks using OAuth, Data URI, PDF credential phish, and PunyCode are now so difficult to detect, even security administrators themselves are falling victim.
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In cybersecurity, as with life in general, the temptation to stick with the status quo frequently triumphs over attempts to move on, upgrade and advance. Each time we witness a major data breach, malware outbreak or similar, reports describe it as a “wake-up call” to organisations everywhere. Yet many are still sleepwalking into danger with insecure systems, processes and policies. Well, it’s happened yet again with two incidents in recent days involving potentially thousands of MPs.
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Every business needs a cloud solution but choosing the right one for yours can be tricky thanks to the large amount of options available. If implementing a cloud solution is something you’ve been considering for a while but unsure where to start, our tips should offer you a helping hand.
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Ian Raine, director of product management at iManage, reminds us that there’s just under a year to go until EU citizens have new rights over what we do with their data
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Ransomware has been the talk of the town again over the past couple of weeks. Just as admins had cleaned up the last of the WannaCry mess, the alarm bells started ringing on yet another apparent global epidemic, dubbed ‘Petya’ by some and ‘NotPetya’ by others.
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The question we are often asked by clients and prospects, is how can we guarantee such a quick turnaround on equipment that has broken, stopped working or needs a replacement part. The answer is simple and evident in the photos that accompany this story; a large stock of spares.
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Data security involves more than protecting your network from hackers. It also means having a disposal plan for your unwanted and expired IT assets. Here are four things to know about digital device disposal:
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Though clients once unquestionably belonged to partners, many legal leaders want to shift ownership over to the business as a whole – which creates tension, since a partner’s value rests on his or her client following. But clients should be shared across the business, because as long as they’re ‘owned’ by partners, firms can’t find out what other services they might need.
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What can firms learn from transformation of the PwC network?
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It is easy to underestimate the term ransomware as just being another technical term to confuse the lay person in the baffling world of technology jargon.
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