You know who owns and leases your operational equipment, or your buildings, plant and other physical facilities. Can you say who controls your IT? How flexible is your IT supply chain to meet your partnership’s ongoing needs? Given how vital IT is to your legal...
Every chain relies on every link, and the stronger each link, then the stronger the chain – hence the saying about the weakest link. Your IT chain has people – we need to think about them – the IT staff, the users, and of course the management...
When your firm last made a significant IT investment, you had a clear understanding of why you made it and the return you were seeking to achieve. You might even have had to justify it to a partners’ committee and make various assurances that it was the best...
In most organisations, and law firms are no exception,, IT has grown organically, meeting business needs as they arise. Those demands have come through thick and fast from almost all areas of the organisation’s operations. IT has become integral to almost...
Are you meeting your obligations to your firm’s stakeholders? Until relatively recently a law firm’s management committee typically only got involved with IT when the management wanted to proceed with a major capital investment – a system refresh,...
How many people DON’T report ransomware attacks? It’s too early to see the Q42021 results from CertNZ but their Q3 report tells there were 2,072 incidents that they responded to in Q3 and fraud/scam’s were up 25%. Their report confirms that the very risks we have been...
Crime doesn’t always pay. The FSB reports (if you can read Russian) that they have taken down the “Revil” band of hackers. These are the people that have caused absolute havoc, from disrupting the US oil pipelines, to the Kaseya attack that took out businesses all...
Our Covid-19 approach. A number of clients and partners are asking us about our Covid-19 policy, so we thought we’d share it! Like many workplaces, we’ve extensively consulted our team and worked through their range of views. Our workplace requires...
Who knows what 2022 will bring. We’re as happy as the next person to make predictions but we’d just predict we’d be wrong! About the only certain guess is that we’ll be under more pressure and with that, it makes sense to share a few everyday IT tips. 5...
Mainstream media is abuzz with the latest software vulnerability. It is in a commonly used component called Log4J 2. This component is in widespread use and the risk is real. This is a fast paced and quickly changing alert. At the time of writing, the immediate...
