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Product Review: Back-up and Disaster Recovery Solutions Solutions from NSI Software
After the attacks of September 11, 2001, Thacher Proffitt & Wood was forced to relocate from its offices at the World Trade Center, and as a direct result began to enhance its business continuity plan to protect itself in the event of another catastrophe. Part of that plan included the safeguarding of the firm's IT assets.
In the event of an emergency, we had to ensure that lawyers and administrative staff would always have access to servers on the firm's network, and therefore the vital data and applications that run the business. We needed to make sure our lawyers could continue providing client services under any conditions, which requires constant access to our computer network. Because of these requirements, the business continuity plan had to include a method to constantly replicate all of the applications and data on our key servers in New York, to another location outside the city.
With a worldwide clientele that closes on multi-million dollar contracts every day, reliable data protection and high availability solutions were important pieces of the overall plan. The firm needed a solution that would give users immediate access to their data in the event of another disaster at its New York City headquarters, where main servers for the entire firm reside. If a disaster occurred in New York ' whether by man-made or natural causes ' immediate failover to back up servers was imperative in order to continue servicing clients from other offices. Constant replication was also critical to make sure that we would always have up-to-the-minute copies of documents and other data stored remotely.
Major Differences In UK, U.S. Copyright Laws
This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
The Article 8 Opt In
The Article 8 opt-in election adds an additional layer of complexity to the already labyrinthine rules governing perfection of security interests under the UCC. A lender that is unaware of the nuances created by the opt in (may find its security interest vulnerable to being primed by another party that has taken steps to perfect in a superior manner under the circumstances.
Strategy vs. Tactics: Two Sides of a Difficult Coin
With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
Legal Possession: What Does It Mean?
Possession of real property is a matter of physical fact. Having the right or legal entitlement to possession is not "possession," possession is "the fact of having or holding property in one's power." That power means having physical dominion and control over the property.
The Anti-Assignment Override Provisions
UCC Sections 9406(d) and 9408(a) are one of the most powerful, yet least understood, sections of the Uniform Commercial Code. On their face, they appear to override anti-assignment provisions in agreements that would limit the grant of a security interest. But do these sections really work?