№ 01
Renewal runs on evidence.
Underwriters want it documented on the file; a verbal assurance, from any single party, no longer secures a renewal. The work is in producing that record in a form the firm owns and can table.
Sector · Legal
Fixed-fee · In writing
Built for the questions partners are now being asked.
Cyber has become a board-level responsibility. Adeo gives the managing partner — and the firm’s risk partner — a plainly written, independently produced answer they can table.
Measured againstACSC Essential Eight · APP 11 · section 180 director duty · your insurer’s control set
Why now
Why law firms need independent oversight.
№ 02
Cyber is a board-level risk.
No longer an IT housekeeping matter: the gap that exposes a practice is the one between how ready it feels and what an underwriter will accept as evidence — and boards are now expected to know the difference.
№ 03
Section 180 duty of care.
A director’s duty of care is increasingly understood to extend to cyber oversight, following regulatory guidance. In an incorporated practice, partners sit in two chairs — as lawyers for their clients and as directors of their own practice.
№ 04
APP 11 and client confidentiality.
Client confidentiality obligations create exposure the MSP’s service contract rarely speaks to. However the fault falls, the breach is the firm’s to own and report.
№ 05
Matter systems outpace governance.
Matter-management platforms, third-party counsel portals, and external sharing are multiplying faster than the oversight around them.
Engagements
How Adeo works with managing partners.
№ 01 · Entry
Quick-Scan
One domain, a credible read within days.
№ 02 · Flagship
Baseline Audit
The full picture, scoped to the engagement.
№ 03 · Ongoing
Technology Advisory
A senior voice, every month.
Recurring · Artefact
Adeo Pulse
The month’s verdict, in writing. Onboarding now; first issues scheduled in the written proposal.
Full engagement details live on the Services page. Every proposal is written in advance; nothing renews and nothing recurs without your signature.
First engagement
What a first engagement is built to surface.
On a first engagement with a firm of 30 to 80 staff, the work is built to surface defects of a shape self-assessment rarely catches. Typical examples:
- 01A practice-management service account — LEAP, Affinity, iManage, or your equivalent — with full read/write across the matter database, a multi-year-old password, and no presence in the firm’s MFA, conditional-access, or offboarding workflow.
- 02A signed and paid backup contract with no documented restore test on file. The piece of evidence cyber-insurance underwriters ask for at renewal.
- 03Mailbox-forwarding rules and matter-folder share links that have outlived the staff member or the matter that created them — including share permissions on confidential briefs that were never set to expire.
- 04Conditional-access exceptions added for a partner’s travel or a project deadline, then left permanent in the policy with no documented owner.
The output is a document a managing partner can forward to the MSP with one line: “We need these actioned, please confirm timeline.”
Independence, plainly
Our only source of revenue is the fee your organisation pays us.
That limits what we can earn — and that limit is the product: no vendor commission, no referral fee, no resale margin, in either direction. The advice answers to you alone.
The lines we hold
- The systems stay with your MSP; Adeo grades them from the outside.
- We sell no software, hardware, or licences — so a finding is never a sales pitch.
- We take no commission from any vendor, MSP, or insurer.
- We brief your board only with the engagement sponsor in the room.
Next step
A thirty-minute conversation, before the next board paper.
Email contact@adeo.au. We reply within one business day.
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