Steve Durbin, Chief Executive of ISF, guests on the Legal Owl Podcast, where host John “Jock” Brocas explores emerging cyber risk in the legal industry. Originally published by Legal Owl.
In this episode, Steve Durbin returns to Jock Brocas’s Legal Owl podcast for the second part of their conversation, exploring how geopolitics, AI and cyber resilience are reshaping the risks facing the legal sector.
Steve explains why hostile states keep growing their cyber capability even as their military strength falls, and why lawyers using AI tools must keep validating what they produce. Together, they examine why security is still treated as a cost rather than value, how reputation can win over sceptical partners, and what small law firms can do now to protect their data and prepare for a breach.
Good security will result in good compliance. Compliance will not necessarily result in good security.
Key takeaways:
- Cyber threats from hostile states persist even when military capability falls, and critical infrastructure far from any conflict zone is at risk.
- AI can speed up legal work, but lawyers must keep checking its output rather than switching off.
- Security must be framed as value, not cost. Legal practices can outsource services, but never responsibility for their data.
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