Today’s law firm is increasingly dependant on information systems in one shape or another. As with most things in life, there is good and bad – easy information access (good) and information security threats (bad). Without getting into the political aspects of the information revolution phenomenon, let us examine the commercial implications and some of the inherent risks of these systems.
Most firms are making slow progress in countering rising information security threats. A bold statement, I agree, but the majority of business systems in use were not designed with information security in mind, but for efficiency, transparency and profit in the way services and information are delivered. But are these two objectives incompatible?
