Confidentiality is the product. The IT has to honour it.
Law firms and conveyancers hold privileged material, run trust accounts and are now squarely in scope for AML/CTF obligations. The technology has to protect all of it without slowing the practice down.
We secure the documents, the identities and the email a practice runs on, and stand up the systems AML/CTF compliance expects.
The headaches we hear about most.
AML/CTF obligations reaching the profession
Legal practices are coming under AUSTRAC's AML/CTF regime: client identification, evidenced staff training and inspectable records. The compliance program is legal work; the systems underneath it are IT work, and most firms have not built them.
Privileged material in everyday tools
Briefs, affidavits and advice live in email threads and shared folders. Privilege and confidentiality obligations do not care that the leak came from a misconfigured share rather than a person.
Trust accounts and settlement funds in the crosshairs
Conveyancing and trust transfers are prime targets for payment redirection fraud. One convincing email at the wrong moment can move settlement funds to an attacker's account.
Courts, e-filing and matter systems that must not stall
Filing deadlines do not move because your systems did. When the practice management system, e-filing portal access or email is down, matters and limitation dates are at risk.
Built around how legal practices actually run.
AML/CTF readiness, the technology side
AML training modules delivered through Microsoft 365, a training register with automated reminders, and secure retention of client identification records, built so your compliance program has systems under it rather than good intentions.
Document security built for privilege
Matter documents in a configured document system with encryption, retention and per-matter access rules, so privileged material is only readable by the people on the matter, and you can prove it.
Access control reviews and identity protection
Multi-factor on every account, conditional access, and a review of exactly who can reach which matters and the trust ledger. Departed staff lose access the day they leave, documented.
Huntress detection with hardened email
24/7 managed detection on every device and layered email defence tuned for the payment redirection and credential theft that target firms, with an 8 minute average repair window when something real fires.
Evidenced staff training with a register and reminders, secure storage and retention of client identification, and controlled, reviewable access to sensitive records. We configure all of that in Microsoft 365. The compliance program and reporting obligations stay with your practice and its advisers; we make the systems hold their end up.
We harden the channel: layered email filtering, locked-down mailbox rules, multi-factor everywhere and monitoring for the account-takeover patterns that precede redirection fraud, backed by clear staff process for verifying any change of account details.
Least-privilege access applies to us too. Our access is scoped, logged and documented, and privileged material stays inside your systems; supporting your environment does not require reading your matters.
No, small firms carry the same obligations with fewer hands. The setup is sized to the practice: the same controls and evidence, scoped to a firm-sized budget, with the option to grow into a dedicated security service later.
A real review by a real consultant.
No charge, no pitch.
One of our consultants goes over your current Microsoft 365 setup, then walks you through exactly what we found. You keep the report whether or not we end up working together.