Cyber warfare – Norton Rose Fulbright hires global chief information security officer

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Top ten LB100 firm Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) has moved to further protect client information with the hire the former head of cyber security for National Air Traffic Services (NATS) Paul Swarbrick as its global chief information security officer (CISO) in the London office.

Announced today (21 January), Swarbrick will join the senior management team, and work closely with IT and the business internationally to ‘strengthen proactively, and develop, a consistent approach to information assurance and cyber security worldwide,’ a firm statement said. Continue reading “Cyber warfare – Norton Rose Fulbright hires global chief information security officer”

Known unknowns – is the legal industry ready to repel the growing threat of cyberattacks?

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Combating cyberattacks on law firms is complicated by the lack of hard information and the shadowy nature of perpetrators. But, reports Legal Business, law firm tech chiefs and security specialists agree the threat is rapidly growing.

What is a law firm if not a huge repository of commercially valuable information? On one side, of course, is the vast bank of specialist legal information held by experienced staff and databases of precedents and legal know-how. Yet valuable as that intellectual property (IP) is – it’s very hard to steal legal expertise.

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