Discover how leading international law firm, DAC Beachcroft, tested the security of their confidential client data with Vodafone Business Managed Security Services.
 

• DAC Beachcroft are a leading international law firm in need of more robust testing of their cyber security measures. 

• As employees started working from home, preventing security breaches became a prime concern. 

• With the help of Vodafone Business security solutions, DAC Beachcroft have deployed penetration testing and cyber exposure diagnostic services to help manage people, places and data. 

Meet DAC Beachcroft

Leading international law firm, DAC Beachcroft, are based in London with a team of over 2,500 employees working in a hybrid environment. 

With expertise ranging from insurance and healthcare to real estate and general commercial law, the company is recognised for the quality of their insights and their commitment to client service. However, since the pandemic struck, the need for increased home working made preventing security breaches a prime concern, leading DAC Beachcroft to deploy penetration testing and cyber exposure diagnostic services as proactive security measures. 

Challenge  

DAC Beachcroft recognised how much the landscape has changed in the last few years. With an increasing number of employees working from home, every internet point needs to be protected. The potential impact of getting their security wrong could be reputationally and financially devastating for their people and clients. 

Cyber security is more than keeping the IT team trained – the entire staff should be resilient to threats. Therefore, it’s key to identify, detect, respond to and resolve these possible threats to minimise risks and costs to the business, something that DAC Beachcroft was also aware of. They needed testing services for their web applications and diagnostics for laptops and servers.  

Together, DAC Beachcroft and Vodafone Business developed a strong relationship and deployed penetration testing and cyber exposure diagnostic services to help manage these threats. 

Solution 

With diagnostics, assessment and testing complete, DAC Beachcroft had a formal report produced by Vodafone Business. The report was clear and easy to understand, highlighting areas of strength and several quick wins along with longer-term improvements that have been fed into DAC Beachcroft’s wider strategy. All the way through the process there were regular update calls and monthly update reports, so they knew exactly where they were in the process. 

During the regular update calls and with the monthly update reports, Vodafone Business guided DAC Beachfront through the entire cyber security testing process and discussed the findings in detail. All reports were clear and easy to understand, highlighting the areas of strength. Longer-term improvements were also fed into their wider IT strategy to secure web apps, laptops, servers. 

DAC Beachcroft are very pleased with the output and it’s something they would look to repeat again to assure the improvements they’ve made have been implemented successfully.