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Is Your Law Firm Running 'Encryption Light?'

By Nina Cunningham
March 02, 2017

With so many warnings to lawyers about transmitting unsecured email and attachments, it can be difficult to understand the solutions available and how they differ. Some may improve security but make communications cumbersome. If too cumbersome, users seek a way to work around them or choose less powerful tools.

Because few commercial firms have developed defense-grade cryptography for use against breaches of data security as would be desired by government agencies, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has taken the initiative and set standards for the next generation cryptography. ANSI documents related to cryptography can be found at https://www.ansi.org/.

Demand for secure products has increased dramatically both by government and industry as dependence on connected platforms and applications expand. With this growth, the data risk environment grows exponentially from occasional to openly routine. This invites additional teaching on where in the system the security should rest. Will we secure the network or the data? Companies on ANSI's go-to list are sure we must secure what we can control, and that's the data. More and more, we are seeing references to data security where once we saw only network security.

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