Physical Data Security, Management and Destruction for Legal IT Professionals

One of our major concerns has always been the security of our clients' sensitive data. Recently, there have been stories in the news about data media getting lost or exposed, often with damaging or embarrassing consequences. Backup tapes, hard drives, CDs and other sources contain exponentially more data than a box of paper, so we have had to become very focused on how these data storage devices are tracked, stored, managed and disposed of when the time comes. Now that storage is so inexpensive, more data is sitting on a single disk or drive. New terabyte disk drives are setting a new standard for capacity ' but they also send up a huge red flag for risk. What if one terabyte hard drive was to fall into the wrong hands? Imagine the fallout and liability to which a law firm could be vulnerable.

19 minute read October 29, 2007 at 11:27 AM

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Michael Chung