When the **** hits the fan.

There's the known known, the unknown known, and then there's the unknown unknown.

When the **** hits the fan you'll have your hands full, you may have insurance that can help but nothing helps like having a plan that allows you to respond to the emergency effectively minimising disruption and losses to you and your clients. Large firms will have business continuity managers, spill over facilities, insurance which will appoint experts to assist, but all of that comes at a cost that few (if any) small firms can afford.

The legal sector is at risk of attacks from cyber criminals: it's not just the contents of your client account that interest them but the data you store about your clients. Being aware of the threats to your practice allows you to plan, not only to mitigate the risks but also, should the risk materialise to have a plan to respond in an effective manner and return to business as usual with the minimum interruption and cost. Having a business continuity plan and testing it in a 'sandbox' not only meets the requirements of Lexcel and the Conveyancing Quality Standard but is likely to lead to a reduction in your insurance premiums. The causes of disasters aren't always external, theft or fraud by an employee, the sudden departure of key staff, IT failures can all be existential threats. Equally externally caused disasters aren't always obvious? If your office is by a river the threat of flood is obvious, but if you're in an office block and the office above has a major leak preventing your use of the office what then?

We can help. We can undertake a holistic threat analysis and develop with you, to your requirements and at a reasonable cost an effective business continuity response package and provide annual review and testing.

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