Legal

Ransomware

A problem for law firms when you factor the reluctance of many law firms to believe that they will ever be impacted, and the low level of resources dedicated to its prevention. Ransomware attacks are a disaster simply waiting to happen – take DLA Piper, with estimated revenues of $2.5 billion. A recent ransomware attack left the firm completely without access to its own email data across the globe for six days, with full recovery taking longer than two weeks

Embracing Technology Change

New technology will drive IT system change in the legal industry. For example, machine learning to help with legal research, robot lawyers for routine cases such as parking tickets, mobile applications for tracking billable hours, performance tracking software, focus on efficiency driven by fixed outcome cases and provision of online legal services. These are all increasing the dependencies on IT storage and infrastructure

Regulatory Compliance

Analytics and visibility into infrastructure are essential to comply with regulations such as HIPPA, SRA Principles 2011, Data Protection Act and EU GDPR which require IT to implement technical safeguards including regular disaster recovery testing