According to recent research, around two-thirds of senior executives believe their sector is attractive to cyber hackers. Such opinions are well founded: recent victims of cyber crime include JP Morgan Chase, American Express and HSBC.

In a recent survey, 75% of employers in law firms with annual turnover above £500m thought they were likely to be the subject of cyber attacks. Less than a third of people working in law firms, however, believe that their top management fully understand the issues around around cyber security, compared with a more reasonable 36% of non-law employees.

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