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Security Tips for Today's Digital Age
Computer networks and Internet use has become a necessary part of the legal industry, and legal professionals should focus attention on potential threats that accompany this use of technology. As dependence on the Internet continues, and the threats to computer networks increase, it's important to implement safeguard solutions to protect information security.
Any computer user that uses a laptop or desktop computer and has Internet access is at risk for common threats that can be easily prevented. Antivirus software, personal firewalls and other tools are simple to deploy and well worth the small amount of money it costs to ensure protection and peace of mind. But it takes more than technology to secure important information assets. While many legal firms spend a great deal of time and money fortifying computer networks from outsider threat, they often neglect the threat from within. Technology tools combined with knowledge about security threats and computer user guidelines can eliminate worrying about computer security from the 'to do' list and allow more time to concentrate on client relationships and business success.
Threats to organizations now come from a range of sources, and employees need to understand all possible vulnerabilities to guard themselves against the increasing number of digital attacks. In 2001, the computing community was introduced to a new kind of threat ' one that could pick and choose its point of entry based on the security roadblocks it faced. These new threats combine to create a modern type of advanced computer security threat that experts are calling “blended threats.” As the term blended threats suggest, these threats combine, or blend, a number of dangers together into one, multi-pronged and destructive force. Blended threats can have an unbelievable infection rate because many of them require no human interaction to spread. In addition, blended threats are usually very malicious once they gain access to and infect a computer.
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 Stranger to the Deed Rule
In 1987, a unanimous Court of Appeals reaffirmed the vitality of the "stranger to the deed" rule, which holds that if a grantor executes a deed to a grantee purporting to create an easement in a third party, the easement is invalid. Daniello v. Wagner, decided by the Second Department on November 29th, makes it clear that not all grantors (or their lawyers) have received the Court of Appeals' message, suggesting that the rule needs re-examination.