Designed to highlight cyber security risks facing barristers and chambers staff and how each can do their part to safeguard against the rising number of threats.

Cyber-attacks are a growing risk for barristers and chambers, with multiple publicised attacks occurring in the past 12 months alone. The  effects of these attacks are multi-faceted, from taking entire sets offline for days, impacting barristers’ ability to represent clients, to incurring ICO and BSB investigations and impacting the reputations of chambers.

Chambers’ cyber security efforts are only as strong as the weakest link and a lack of cyber training and awareness among barristers and staff leaves sets exposed to cyber-attacks and potentially catastrophic losses.

Our team of in-house barristers has extensive experience of advising sets which have suffered data breaches and have used this unique insight into creating a cyber security module designed specifically for barristers and chambers' employees.

As part of our response to the risk of cyber-attacks for barristers, we include free access to this Cyber Security module for all subscribers to the Briefed GDPR Certification for Barristers.

What will you learn? 

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Know why robust cyber security is so important to the Bar.
• Recognise different types of cyber-attacks and scams.
• Understand how attacks can happen through different areas of chambers' technology.
• Be aware of best practices and steps you can take to avoid common cyber-attacks.

Who is this course for?

Barristers and chambers staff who want to:

• Know how to recognise and avoid common cyber security risks.
• Protect their practice, and chambers, from easily avoided cyber-attacks.
• Work from home, or remotely, to ensure they have the correct safeguards in place.
• Use software, email or other digital methods to store or transfer information about cases, clients or employees.

92% of users said they would recommend this training to a colleague.