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Is Gmail's New Ephemeral Messaging Service a Threat to Data Retention? Image

Is Gmail's New Ephemeral Messaging Service a Threat to Data Retention?

Rhys Dipshan

Despite some potential problems with widespread use of Gmail's 'confidential mode,' the new ephemeral messaging function can be easily managed from an information governance perspective.

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Legal Tech: Approaches and Considerations for Discovery Cost Minimization and Recovery Image

Legal Tech: Approaches and Considerations for Discovery Cost Minimization and Recovery

John Koss & Daniel Pelc

The costs of litigation increase with ever more potentially responsive data, litigation technology options, and a truly global reach in the context of much litigation. In response, law firms must continue to consider viable approaches to broaching discussions surrounding the recovery of these costs both within the firm and, more importantly, with law firm clients.

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Pitching Your Cybersecurity Case to Law Enforcement Agencies

Steven A. Cash & Naju R. Lathia

This article focuses on the unique issues that arise in a specific but increasingly common scenario: when your client is the victim of a cybercrime.

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Case Study: How Momkus McCluskey Virtualized Its IT for Better Security and Productivity 

Jennifer Friedland

Whatever direction we went with our IT, we wanted to make sure we would be following the absolute best practices from a security perspective. I needed to know that our data would be safe, secure, as well as fully backed up in case something went wrong.

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Legal Tech: A Deep Dive Into the Tech Upgrades in Thomson Reuters' Westlaw Edge

Zach Warren

The new technology offering from Thomson Reuters features a retooled warning system for questionable law, an expanded litigation analytics offering, and more.

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Book Review: Cybersecurity Program Development for Business: The Essential Planning Guide Image

Book Review: Cybersecurity Program Development for Business: The Essential Planning Guide

Adam Schlagman

While many business owners and executives understand that a data security problem/need exists, they do not have a baseline fluency in the concepts and alphabet soup that comprise the language of digital information security. To this extent, Chris Moschovitis' new book is an effective cybersecurity primer for the management community.

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Blockchain and GDPR — Frenemies?

Justin Hectus & Kristy Sambor

In a nutshell, GDPR mandates that individuals have access and control over the use and maintenance of their data in certain circumstances, while the foundation of blockchain relies on the immutability of data. On the surface, these concepts seem in direct conflict with each other. This article discusses the points where GDPR and blockchain share common ground, where conflicts may exist and possible approaches for mitigating those conflicts.

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Why Encryption Is the Key to Ensure Data Privacy in the Cloud Image

Why Encryption Is the Key to Ensure Data Privacy in the Cloud

Linus Chang

At both a personal and corporate level, there are huge gains to be made in protecting against data breaches. The fact is that well-implemented client-side encryption — where the corporate user keeps their own key rather than entrusting a third party to guard their sensitive information — is the only sure way to guarantee data privacy when storing data on other people's servers.

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This is Not Your Father's Cloud (Part Two)

Adam Cohen

<b><i>Part Two of a Two-Part Article</b></i><p>In Part One of this article last month, we began a discussion designed to demystify the hesitations behind cloud security and analyzed the fast-growing transformation to a range of newer technical approaches with important consequences for legal practice. This month we continue the discussion by tackling the security and legal implications of the mass transformation of enterprise IT to cloud services from leading providers such as AWS and Azure.

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Cryptography's Legal Landscape

Paul McGough

The same applications, and the same cryptographic protocols, don't function in the exact same ways when appearing in 'the same software' utilized in different control devices. What, if any, are the legal ramifications of differing delivery mechanisms for the same cryptographic functions that may or may not perform the same?

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