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User Behavior Analytics and Your Company's Data
While cybersecurity spending at many organizations still tends to focus on perimeter defenses, security experts have begun to face the reality that it is nearly impossible to keep bad actors out of your network, and are turning their attention to better ways of mitigating threats posed by intruders once they've hacked their way in.
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<b><i>Legal Tech</b></i><br>Making Sense of New Data Types in the App Age
While the threat of "big data" — massive amounts of data inside an organization — has cast a shadow over IT and legal departments for several years, the real challenge can oftentimes be the variety. It's why we believe the real challenge is less about "big data" and more about "new data types" — that quickly defeat traditional collection and review tools and strategies.
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The GDPR
<b><i>Considerations for Corporate Counsel and Discovery Teams</b></i><p>With the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) set to take effect in May 2018, the serious implications for corporate legal counsel and e-discovery teams are difficult to deny.
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<b><i>Online Extra</b></i><br>What Companies Can Demand From Law Firms on Data Security
Association of Corporate Counsel Releases First Set of Model Cybersecurity Practices
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Information Security: The Human Factor
Law firms must be diligent about their information security — not just via protection through technology, but by training staff on what to look for and how to react to cybersecurity threats. Most security breaches arise out of human error or negligence. Educating users is one of the best defenses.
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<i><b>Online Extra</b></i><br> Are Law Departments Letting Law Firms Off the Hook When it Comes to Cybersecurity?
It is time for a reality check on cybersecurity. Our research has focused on the threat that data breaches present to law firms and law departments independently, but the interplay between cybersecurity at law firms and law departments is increasingly impossible to ignore.
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Untangling the Mystery of Cybersecurity Insurance
IT security professionals used to warn that only two types of businesses exist: those that have been hacked, and those that will be. Now, many are even more pessimistic, and divide the world's businesses into companies that know that they have been hacked, and those that don't. Law firms are juicy targets with all the personal identifiable information (PII) contained in client files. Intellectual property practices are especially attractive to cyber thieves because of the value of patent, trademark and trade secret information.
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A Primer for the Entertainment Industry on the Use of Blockchain Technology
This article familiarizes lawyers with cryptocurrency and, particularly, the enabling blockchain technology, methodologies and systems.
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<i><b>BREAKING NEWS:</b></i><br> Sedona Conference Releases 3rd Edition of e-Discovery Principles for Public Comment
The Updates are the First Released Since 2007
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Cybersecurity: Law Firms Are Coming Up Short
An ALM Survey Reports Disturbing Information
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