Intellix IT Solutions
Intellix · For Legal Practices

Data protection & external exposure reviews for solicitor firms.

Solicitor firms handle highly sensitive information — medical records, litigation documents, financial details, identity data. Small technical oversights in websites, email systems or DNS configuration can create disproportionate legal and reputational risk. We surface those oversights before they surface elsewhere.

The reality

Three exposures we keep seeing across Irish legal practices.

Email impersonation of a partner

A spoofed message — apparently from a partner, advising a client to redirect a settlement payment to a new account — succeeds because the firm's domain lacks DMARC enforcement. The exposure is in the DNS, not the inbox.

Public exposure of staff usernames

A WordPress site, set up years ago by a web agency, publishes every author's login slug under /wp-json/wp/v2/users. A targeted phishing campaign against named staff becomes trivial.

Intake-form data flowing through a forgotten processor

A 'request a callback' form posts to a third-party service nobody has reviewed in five years. The privacy notice doesn't mention the processor. The form predates the current data-protection regime entirely.

What's in scope

Six focus areas. Externally observable.

Each area is a public-facing exposure that a partner can act on with their existing IT and web suppliers. No system access required.

Microsoft 365 impersonation protection

SPF, DKIM and DMARC alignment — so a spoofed partner email doesn't reach a client inbox.

Website user exposure

WordPress administrator accounts, public author archives and forgotten staff accounts.

WordPress hardening

Public admin paths, plugin currency, outdated themes, exposed login surfaces.

Secure forms & intake

Client-intake and contact forms — TLS, retention, processor disclosure, embedded widgets.

GDPR posture review

Privacy notice alignment with what the site and embedded vendors actually do.

Public attack-surface validation

DNS, certificates, subdomains, look-alike domains, parked-domain risk.

How we work

Practitioner-led. Evidence-based. Written for partners and management committees.

We work alongside the Data Protection Officers Association of Ireland, the British Computer Society and the Irish Computer Society. Every observation we share is something a regulator, an insurer or an attacker could see for themselves — documented in language your management committee can sign off on, and prioritised against the work that pays back fastest.

Process

Four trust-first steps. No surprises.

01

Non-Intrusive Review

External only. No logins, no system access, no disruption. We see exactly what a member of the public sees.

02

Findings Summary

A short summary an office manager or partner can read in 10 minutes. No CVE numbers, no jargon dump.

03

Remediation Guidance

Owner-mapped: web agency, IT provider, Microsoft 365 admin, DNS provider. We tell you who you should phone for each item.

04

Optional Ongoing Review

A quarterly snapshot keeps the posture you fix today still fixed in six months. Optional, never automatic.

Where we work

Serving legal practices across Ireland.

Dublin · Portlaoise · Kildare · Galway · Shannon · Thurles · Cashel · Limerick · Athlone · Birr · Roscrea · Tipperary Town — and especially the midlands and mid-west, where specialist resources locally are thinner on the ground. The complimentary review is delivered remotely; partner-level conversations are scheduled in person where they add value.

One step

Request a post-launch validation review.

Whether your firm has just refreshed its website, taken on a new managing partner, or simply wants a second pair of eyes — the snapshot is complimentary and the conversation is confidential.

Our methodology

A structured external review, not a generic scanner export.

Our external posture reviews follow a consistent seven-stage methodology, combining public-internet evidence with senior interpretation and a practical remediation plan.