COVER STORY
It’s not all about
technology. You’ve
got to start with the
people, then the
process, then you
add the tech at
the end.
but it’s actually not and we really need
to protect each other and that’s now
starting to filter through.”
On the specific cybersecurity
challenges to the legal industry
Walmsley points to partnerships as one
particular challenge, as these require a
more consultative approach with regular
and wide engagement.
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However, once the message has
been conveyed, he said it tends to be
accelerated through with good funding
and support.
“The legal industry typically has been
seen to be the ‘soft underbelly of
society’ but we’ve now changed that
and we’re now in a much more proactive
world,” he said.
“So I think we are starting to
revolutionise the industry.”
The cyberskills shortage and
the three ways Freshfields is
tackling it
“We like to home-grow talent which
creates loyalty. We’re taking people from
a policing, project management and HR
background and we’re training them up
in the right way to do things on the job,”
he explains.
“Secondly, we outsource low-level tasks
that are repeatable.”
Third on the strategy is investment in
young people.
“We are starting to get in grads
and young people. And we are also
supporting the UK government in their
university scheme,” he said.
“There are 250 students that get
bursaries from the government, get
trained by the government in cyber and
then they do an eight-week stint at a
business. And we’re going to be taking
two or three of those on.”
Is that the way other
companies/countries should
be tackling the shortage?
The challenge, Walmsley says, it
attempting to ‘retrofit’ what’s available
now into what is wanted – and it just
doesn’t work.
He said: “There’s a two million shortage
of resources. We have to invest in the
future and schools at proper grassroots
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