Survival guides

The worst has happened. A pipe has burst and your office is immersed in a foul-smelling swamp of murky water. No one can get in and your furniture and tech have been destroyed. Rats have found a new bathing spot around the server. How do you keep the business going?

This is just one possible disaster scenario that almost every business today might face at some point. The thing that gets you might be a severed internet line, a fire, ransomware attack or even a volcanic eruption. They all sound awful, but if the firm doesn’t have a plan for what to do to keep operations running while it recovers, it could be so much worse.  The office might only be uninhabitable for two days, but that’s two days of not progressing matters or pursuing new business – and for an SME, that’s a big deal.

That’s why we’ve gone to business continuity specialists and SME legal leaders to find out what firms need to do to ensure continuity in the event of disaster.

We hear Industry views from LayerV on risk and GDPR compliance with managed IT and public cloud, Clio on setting up KPIs to drive competitive advantage, Nasstar on leveraging technology to fight cybercrime, InfoTrack sets out the competitive case for tech and Riliance sets out the compliance challenges for the coming year.

BRAIN TRAINING

Robert Camp, managing partner of Stephens Scown, reflects on the process and power of moving to a John Lewis-style employee ownership model.

THE CASE FOR TECH

Adam Bullion, head of marketing and product at InfoTrack, sets out how firms need technology if they want to be competitive – and avoid going the way of Blockbuster.

COMPLY IN THE SKY

James Letley, CEO of LayerV (part of Pulsant), on how firms can manage risk and stay GDPR compliant with the help of managed IT and public cloud.

NAVIGATING COMPLIANCE

Brian Rogers, director of regulation and compliance services at Riliance, sets out the compliance challenges that law firms will face over the coming year.