Today, only foolish law firms have no disaster recovery solution in place. The trick is trying to strike a happy balance between the cost of protecting ourselves against every conceivable eventuality and the risk of not protecting ourselves at all. At Lewis Silkin, we found the key was to assess the risks we may face, and then try to implement all we would need to continue working within 12 hours of – in the worst-case scenario – the server room being destroyed.
Lewis Silkin is an established commercial law firm based in the City. We have not only assessed the factors involved in protecting our data, but have spent a great deal of time and money getting it right. In April 2005, we went a step further by enlisting Datashare Solutions to guard against every possible threat, using a managed solution called Cerberus.
