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Sectors · Law firms

IT and cyber security built for law firms

Your regulator expects controls. Your clients expect confidentiality. Most IT companies understand neither.

HelmTech is a Microsoft security and managed IT practice that works with regulated professional services firms. We speak SRA, ICO and Lexcel, and we secure the Microsoft 365 estate your firm already owns.

The numbers your risk register should already have

3 in 4

UK law firms have been hit by a cyber attack

Source: SRA

+77%

rise in successful attacks on law firms in a single year, from 538 to 954

2,284

legal-sector data breach incidents in a year, up 39%

£78,393

average loss in a residential conveyancing fraud case (£11.7m reported in one year)

Source: Action Fraud

£60k & £98k

ICO fines issued against individual firms after incidents

72%

of firms carry no cyber insurance, and around 35% have no mitigation plan

Sector guidance puts the right cyber budget for a typical five-partner practice at £8,000 to £20,000 a year. Our retainers fit inside the number your own regulator quotes.

What a law firm gets from HelmTech

Conveyancing fraud defence

Email authentication, payment-diversion controls, external sender banners and call-back procedures. The £78,393 problem, closed.

SRA and Lexcel-aligned security

Controls mapped to what your regulator and your quality standard actually ask for, with evidence you can produce on request.

24/7 detection and response

Managed detection and response watches your estate around the clock, because attackers do not keep office hours.

Client confidentiality, engineered

Conditional Access, device encryption and data controls across every laptop, phone and mailbox in the practice.

A senior team only

The people securing your firm run enterprise Microsoft estates every day. No junior queue, no call-centre scripts.

Fixed, published pricing

Per-user monthly pricing is on our pricing page. No discovery-call games.

How engagements start

Every engagement starts with the fixed-fee Security Health Check: a plain-English report showing exactly where an attacker or a regulator would find a gap in your firm, and what it costs to close it. The fee is credited against onboarding if you proceed.

Book a Security Health Check

Frequently asked questions

Only if you want us to. The Health Check works alongside any provider. Many firms then move to us for the security layer or for full managed IT.

See where your firm stands

Start with a fixed-fee Security Health Check: a plain-English report on exactly where an attacker or regulator would find a gap, and what it costs to close.