Information Security

For the past few years, considerable public discussion about the need for law firms to address information security, or InfoSec, issues with their clients. InfoSec can hardly qualify as the next big thing. However, the Sony story has brought the issue front and center and, as we get further into 2015, we can be sure that the issue will only grow.

9 minute read January 31, 2015 at 11:00 PM
By
Leonard Deutchman
Information Security

The story of North Korea allegedly hacking into Sony's IT infrastructure and sending Sony a threatening e-mail that led it to cancel the distribution of a new film, The Interview , a comedy-adventure film about two Americans who land an interview with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, dominated the news as 2014 winded down.

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