Cyber Security and Resilience

Our ready-made questionnaire is a valuable tool to help you manage and mitigate cyber risks across your supply chain by facilitating understanding of the technical security measures and organisational controls your suppliers have in place. We can help you identify gaps and raise red flags where suppliers are not meeting industry and/or contractual standards.

We also provide contract reviews that take a comprehensive look at your cyber protections and liability position under third party supplier contracts. If something's not quite right, we'll help you to renegotiate and boost your contractual protections.

We'll help you develop an effective cyber incident response plan. This can either be bespoke or using one of our ready-made plans that can be used out of the box or adapted to fit your needs. We can also conduct a legal review of your incident management policies and processes. We'll guide you through the creation of and implementation of data breach and other policies which help you mitigate and manage risks associated with cyber and data incidents.

War gaming is a great way of getting your team prepared for an incident. We offer 'dry run' exercises which simulate under time constraints the outcome of a successful cyber attack. As well as simulations, we provide training to help increase awareness and engagement of key cyber security issues.

Our specialist Insurance team can help review the adequacy of the cyber protection in your current insurance programme and assist you in procuring a bespoke insurance policy that best suits your needs. If an incident happens, we can help you through the claims process to engage in a co-operative relationship with insurers and ensure you don't fall foul of any policy terms and conditions.

If a cyber incident occurs, we'll be there to help you make swift but considered decisions. We'll be on hand to help you act within strict timescales. From internal and external investigations to remedial steps and media crisis management, we're on hand to support you.

Whether it's working with your data protection officer, information security teams and other parts of your business to investigate breaches or helping you to satisfy reporting obligations within tight timescales, our team becomes your team. We'll draft all necessary communications and notifications with an eye to protect you from any future litigation or investigation and minimise reputational damage.

Our team has a track record of successfully defending mass data breach claims and recovering damages equivalent to all losses arising from a cyber incident. From helping you to pursue a threat actor, to working with forensics teams and recovering damages, we cover all aspects of litigation linked to cyber security and data protection. We'll assess the facts, your business objectives and the defences or claims available to you, all with a view to advising your business on a strategy that aligns with its goals and priorities.

We're here to support you from beginning to end; that means the support continues even after the immediate aftermath has been dealt with. We'll work with you to explore the lessons learned following a cyber or data incident and help you to create useful resources that help improve your defences and processes. Legal privilege sometimes provides good protection in relation to documentation, but we can advise further and specifically on this.

We advise industry and government bodies on the application and impact of recent changes to cyber security legislation in the UK. We can also support with cyber security compliance projects in jurisdictions outside of the UK including the EU. Our team helps clients navigate these updates, offering clear guidance on their impact on business operations. We also support compliance efforts by providing practical checklists to assist with gap analysis for current and future products.