Is your ediscovery secure? How do you know? Finding out doesn’t have to be overwhelming, even if you’re suddenly remote. Check out our latest blog post for tips on conducting a data security audit.
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Ediscovery and Data Security
Mitigating risk is important to legal professionals regardless of their role or area of expertise. Many investigations involve sensitive data and serious allegations, all of which have the potential for additional complications if the information falls into the wrong hands.
Ediscovery Professionals Prepare Smart Cities
Smart cities use IoT sensors to collect data that can improve city services and enhance citizens’ quality of life, but they also raise questions regarding data privacy and security. How should ediscovery professionals prepare for these new data sources?
What Happens With the Data Collected by Doorbell Cameras?
Doorbell cameras are everywhere, passively recording what happens on front porches, driveways, and even public sidewalks around the country. In fact, you may have bought one for yourself or a loved one during a Cyber Monday sale this week. Many of these cameras come...
Importance of Biometric Data Privacy
Using biometric data to identify people may still seem like the stuff of science fiction, but it’s here today, and it’s become widespread. Companies use biometric data because it’s hard to fake, which makes it useful for preventing fraud. However, its permanence also...
Another Day, Another Data Breach – Data Security
According to the 2019 Mid-Year QuickView Data Breach Report, the first half of 2019 saw 3,813 data breaches involving 4.1 billion records. The majority of those records — 3.2 billion, or nearly 75% — were exposed in just eight mega-breaches. Email data was exposed in...
The Yale Data Breach — Security Lessons for Ediscovery Professionals
Yale University has been in the news this month due to a data breach that started in 2008. That’s not a typo; it took Yale 10 years to realize that its security had been compromised. This situation brings into sharp focus the importance of not just avoiding security...
Top Five Takeaways From PREX 2018
Last week we held our seventh annual PREX conference, an inspiring three days that brings together the best and brightest in-house legal minds to collectively cultivate better ediscovery practices and outcomes.
PREX Preview: Should You Keep Your Ediscovery In House or Outsource It? Lessons From a National Nonprofit
Chelsea Perez, a paralegal at the Humane Society of the United States, came on board specifically to help the nonprofit formalize and streamline its ediscovery process.She’ll be speaking at this year’s PREX, the Portland-based in-house ediscovery conference, to talk...
Sanctions considered due to loss of evidence in cyberattack
Western Power, Inc. v. TransAmerican Power Prods., Inc., No. H-17-1028 (S.D. Tex. June 7, 2018). In this contract dispute, the court considered whether it should sanction a party for the near-complete loss of discoverable evidence in a cyberattack. The plaintiff,...
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