In the legal world, lawyers are facing a difficult task: keeping their clients' secrets safe in a world full of technology. With so many new ways to communicate and store information online, it's easy for private stuff to get out. Even with passwords and special codes, there's still a risk of someone seeing what they shouldn't. This makes it hard for lawyers who want to work efficiently while also protecting their clients' information. How can they find the right balance between using technology to their advantage and making sure they're not accidentally sharing sensitive stuff?
On top of all that, there are tons of rules and laws about how information has to be handled, especially when it comes to privacy and security. Lawyers have to juggle not just keeping secrets safe but also following all these different rules. It's like trying to navigate through a maze while holding something fragile – one wrong move, and everything could fall apart. As lawyers grapple with these tough issues, what ideas do you think could help them do their jobs better?
I find this post interesting because this past summer I did compliance work for different departments at a University, one of them being the IT department. One of the biggest challenges I faced was researching national standards and comparing to other university rules regarding keeping client/student information private and a general consensus that I found, besides a two-factor authentication and making sure your screen wasnt open to the public, was really doing your best in keeping it private because theres never 100% certainty.
ReplyDeleteOne way lawyers can improve this is complete trainings and CLE's on cybersecurity. Locking up paper files is not longer enough to protect confidential information. Phishing scams are becoming increasingly sophisticated and even if a firm has the best cybersecurity system in place there is still the issue of human error. That being said every employee in a firm should be required to complete these trainings in order to preserve data privacy.
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