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Better Safe Than Sorry

By Shaun Catlin
June 28, 2005

Information technology has become an invaluable business tool around the world. With it, businesses ' the traditional kind and those that operate over wires (and wirelessly) ' including law firms are able to increase efficiency and lower costs. After all, information technology is the gateway to one of the e-commerce sector's most important assets: Information.

But what happens when information cannot be trusted? When it is vulnerable and exposed to Internet threats?

When information is secure, it is trustworthy; anything less than that, and it simply loses its value.

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