Prioritising pre-emptive security
2nd July 2025 • Park Plaza Victoria, London, UK
Reactive security is security too late in today’s threat landscape. So, how can you improve your proactivity?
The future of cybersecurity is pre-emptive
As cyber threats continue to evolve in complexity and, more significantly, volume, the failings of traditional and reactive approaches like detection and response are increasingly exposed.
EDR-type detection systems are overwhelmed with attacks and possible attacks; SOCs are swamped with false positives; and the lack of useful information in this tsunami of alarms means that organisations are becoming less, not more, secure.
One answer is the idea of pre-emptive cyber-defence. This prioritizes stopping threats before they materialize, leveraging technologies like Automated Moving Target Defense (AMTD) to fortify organizational defences against novel and sophisticated cyberattacks.
According to Gartner, “By 2030, pre-emptive cybersecurity technologies will be included in 75% of security solutions that are currently focused solely on detection and response.”
So, cybersecurity should no longer be about "how quickly can we respond?"—it should be about "how do we stop attacks before they start?"
In this model, predicting and stopping threats before they strike is the only way to stay ahead of attackers.
Put more practically, being able to see at least some of what is coming enhances the value of the information coming into your security process, allowing you to act on good intel rather than react to bad.
AI, automation, Zero Trust, and threat intelligence are the foundation of modern proactive security. All buzzwords of course, but no less true for that.
So, this July we will gather security leaders from across the UK’s legal sector to look in detail at this approach. We will ask what new technologies or processes it requires.
We will investigate how easily it sits with current technology stacks. We will look at the resource and staffing implications.
And we will also have our usual in-depth case studies and panels from leaders in the industry giving their insights into the challenges and solutions to BAU and strategic problems. Cybersecurity is now top of every agenda. Can law firms keep up?
