Agenda

►The Human Factor: The New Frontier of Cyber Risk

Holly-Jane Grayling, Director of SHIELD, The Cognitive Security Institute

• Understand how attackers exploit trust, authority and urgency, including through AI-generated messages, voice cloning and deepfake impersonation.
• Explore social engineering scenarios through live audience participation and discussion.
• Identify where workload, client expectations and established routines make secure decisions harder.
• Discover practical ways to make verification, reporting and security learning fit into busy legal teams’ working day.

►Is the Legal Sector Becoming Uninsurable?
The Cyber Insurance Reality Check: Risks, Claims & Readiness

Thomas Clayton, UK Head of Cyber, Zurich UK

• Navigating the unique cyber risks facing law firms: An insurer's perspective.
• Claims in the spotlight: Real-world claims trends, emerging threats and lessons from recent incidents.
• The underwriter's perspective: What insurers really look for when assessing a law firm's cyber risk.
• Getting insurance-ready: Practical steps to strengthen cyber resilience and improve insurability.

►Panel Discussion: Luna Moth and the New Face of Cyber Extortion — Are Law Firms Prepared?

Simon Brady, AKJ Associates
Nathan Hayes, Director of IT, Three Crowns LLP

• How are you preventing attackers from impersonating IT support and exploiting legitimate remote-access tools to gain entry into your firm's environment?
• What additional steps are you taking to strengthen your ability to detect and prevent the unauthorised access and exfiltration of sensitive client and matter data, particularly in light of threats such as Luna Moth?
• How are you making staff aware of emerging threats such as Luna Moth, and more importantly, how are you testing whether lawyers and business services teams can recognise and challenge suspicious IT support requests, unexpected software installations and social engineering attempts?
• What are the three specific security controls or response capabilities that law firms should prioritise over the next 90 days to defend against groups such as Luna Moth?

►Surviving the "Vulnpocalypse": Transforming Exposure Management for the Era of AI 

Steve Davies, Head of Cyber Security, DLA Piper

• The Shift to Exponential, Autonomous Threat Exposure
• Navigating the Perilous Transitionary Period
• Fighting Speed with Speed: End-to-End Automated Defence

►The Knowledge Advantage: Why Knowledge, Not AI, Could Be the Law Firm’s Next Competitive Advantage

Kirit Solanki, Technology Business Solutions Director, Mishcon de Reya

• Why the challenge is no longer simply finding information, but connecting and understanding knowledge across matters, clients, people and precedent.
• Why AI alone cannot solve the problem, and why trusted data, knowledge architecture, taxonomy, governance and security become more important, not less.
• How AI can move firms from searching for documents towards surfacing relevant expertise, experience and know-how in the flow of work.
• Why the firms that can safely connect AI to their proprietary knowledge could create an advantage that is much harder to replicate than the AI technology itself.

►Single Pane of Glass or Single Point of Failure?
Consolidation as a Strategy for Full Visibility of Data and Threats

Spencer Scott, Head of Information Security, RPC

• Why separate tools leave gaps in what you can see across remote working, SaaS and AI tools
• Following client data from the endpoint to the SaaS and AI tools, and controlling it where it goes
• How a security team can join up security events to respond to incidents and answer “how we were impacted”
• Concentration risk: outages, lock-in and exit plans, and what to ask your platform provider