The image of the lawyer busily scribbling away at a desk surrounded by leather-bound books until the wee hours is increasingly inaccurate.  Turcan Connell is a firm of solicitors and asset managers which has wholeheartedly embraced the benefits that technology brings.

As Infrastructure Manager Nick Silverstein explains, "Technology is key to our business. Being able to work remotely is now absolutely critical in allowing us to get the best results for our clients. Our lawyers and other professionals need to be able to work from clients’ offices, so the capacity to work from different locations is very much part and parcel of our daily work.  Suffice to say, knowing that we can access and share different files safely and securely is extremely important; this is why we’ve adopted Lumison's Virtual Private Network (VPN)."

Among the benefits that Turcan Connell experiences is greater visibility of who's doing what via their dashboard, and greater control in responding to security risks – for example, if a CryptoCard keyfob gets lost then the firm can cancel and lock the VPN access without having to contact administrative team.  It also serves as a business continuity tool should anything happen to the firm's premises – all electronic files are safe and remain accessible.

Too often, companies cite security reasons for not allowing remote working. Turcan Connell demonstrates that forward thinking firms recognise that accessing data on the go is central to their business, their clients and their staff's work-life balance.