The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and its Implications for UK Law Firms

2026-05-18T10:11:38+01:00November 13th, 2025|Cyber Essentials, Cyber Security, Law|

The EU’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) makes it safer for consumers and businesses to purchase software and hardware products with a digital component. To understand more about what this means for UK law firms, read on for an overview of what this law covers, how it relates to the UK, and its implications for [...]

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How UK Law Firms Can Maintain Security and Client Confidentiality When Using Copilot

2026-05-18T10:12:39+01:00November 6th, 2025|AI, Law|

Microsoft Copilot can be a powerful tool for legal work, but it carries inherent risks for client data. Law firms can still safely use Copilot and other AI tools without risking client confidentiality, but only as long as practical steps are taken to prevent data leaks and ensure compliance. Read on to learn more [...]

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Celebrating Excellence at the Surrey Law Society Legal Awards 2025

2025-11-24T10:29:19+00:00October 27th, 2025|Law|

Last week Pro Drive IT was delighted to attend the Surrey Law Society (SLS) Legal Awards 2025, held once again at G Live in Guildford. As providers of specialist IT support to the legal sector, Pro Drive are longstanding patrons of the SLS and proud to support an event that recognises the outstanding talent [...]

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How your IT team can be tricked into letting cyber criminals access to your IT systems

2025-06-02T17:24:41+01:00June 2nd, 2025|Accountants, Cyber Security, Financial Services, Law, Tips and Advice|

In recent months, cyber-attacks on high profile retail businesses including Marks & Spencer (M&S) and the Co-op have made the news headlines. This has affected many customers of these businesses, not just in terms of product availability, but also by having their personal data sold to criminals on the dark web.  Of even greater [...]

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The risk of ignoring technology investment in uncertain economic times

2025-05-09T17:47:53+01:00May 9th, 2025|Accountants, AI, Financial Services, Law|

We currently live in a more unstable and unpredictable world which is putting pressure on all businesses. Whether it is the global macroeconomic impact of Trump’s trade policies, the impact of wars raging on several continents or the increase in national insurance (effectively an employment tax) we have seen in the UK, businesses are [...]

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Highlights from our live cyber incident simulation workshop

2025-04-10T11:48:47+01:00April 3rd, 2025|Accountants, Cyber Security, Financial Services, Law|

Pro Drive IT recently ran a roundtable exercise titled “How to avoid cyber annihilation of your firm”, which as the name suggest was designed to educate the attendees on the cyber security risks to their business and to give them some practical advice and tips on how to respond if (when!) an incident occurs [...]

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How Pro Drive helps professional and financial services firms leverage Microsoft Copilot

2025-02-21T16:51:58+00:00February 21st, 2025|Accountants, AI, Law, Productivity|

If you are a regular follower of this blog or our newsletters, you will have noticed that we have published a lot of content on Microsoft Copilot and more generally on generative AI over the past 12 months. So why are we so excited about Copilot? Well, generative AI as a whole makes the [...]

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Why AI voice cloning is a major threat to professional services firms

2025-01-20T14:59:30+00:00January 20th, 2025|Accountants, AI, Cyber Security, Law|

We recently wrote about the danger of impersonation scams and highlighted how generative AI is making these scams more convincing, in particular ‘Vishing’ which usually centres around telephone based scams. A more recent development, particularly worrying for professional and financial services firms, is voice cloning. This might sound like something from the Terminator but [...]

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Impersonation Scams and the Threat to Professional Services Firms – What You Need to Know

2025-01-06T17:18:58+00:00December 31st, 2024|Accountants, Cyber Security, Law, Security and Threats, Tips and Advice|

The last couple of years have seen a significant increase in digital impersonation scams specifically targeting professional services, accountancy, and law firms, and their clients. These scams exploit human error and IT related vulnerabilities, and their impacts can be devastating, ranging from financial loss to reputational damage. Why Law and Accountancy Firms Are Prime [...]

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Your SharePoint will not be ready for Copilot. Here’s what you need to do

2024-10-29T08:47:26+00:00October 29th, 2024|Accountants, AI, Cloud Services, Compliance, Law, Security and Threats|

Legal and Accountancy firms faced with difficulties in recruiting enough staff are increasing turning to technology to find efficiency and reduce the burden of their workload. Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft’s AI assistant tool, has been seen significant interest as its incorporated across the Microsoft office suite. With almost all workers using these applications, there [...]

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