Professional services
Security monitoring for firms trusted with other people's confidential matters.
Law firms, accounting practices, and consultancies. The data is not yours, the duty of confidentiality is, and increasingly your own clients audit you before they engage.
The problem
Regulated like a large organisation, staffed like a small one.
A firm holds the most sensitive material its clients own: transactions before they are announced, disputes before they are filed, finances before they are published. Larger clients now send security questionnaires as a condition of engagement, and insurers ask the same questions at renewal. Meanwhile the firm has no security staff, because every billable hour is better spent elsewhere.
What we see
Three attacks that land here.
- 01
Mailbox compromise on a live matter
An attacker sitting in a partner's mailbox during a transaction learns exactly when and how to intervene in a payment.
- 02
Ransomware timed to a deadline
Attackers understand that a firm facing a filing date has more reason to pay than one that does not.
- 03
Theft of matter files for extortion
Data is copied out before anything is encrypted, so the threat to publish survives even a clean restore from backup.
How we fit
What this looks like for a professional services business.
The service is the same one every client gets. What changes is which evidence matters to you and who is going to ask for it.
- Analyst-reviewed alerts, so partners are contacted only when something is real.
- Monitoring for the mailbox and document access patterns that precede a payment fraud attempt.
- A written monthly briefing you can send to a client running a vendor review, without redrafting it.
- Incident documentation that meets the standard your professional body and your insurer expect.
Where to start
A 45 minute assessment, then a decision.
We review your identity, endpoint, email, and backup controls against what your insurer and your framework expect. You receive a written scorecard and a 90 day roadmap within five business days, yours to keep whether or not you engage us. You can see the reporting format on our sample report page first.
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