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Before jumping into making any major cloud computing decisions for your law firm, here are the questions to ask before converting.
As more organizations move their information to the cloud, attorneys must understand the potential ethical issues involved in storing data off-site on the Internet.
Here are five important points for law firms and businesses to consider when preparing to take advantage of cloud computing.
Performing the necessary research to support your records retention policy is not a small task. While this work is vital to a defensible policy, standardizing your approach and getting your firm's risk management resources, IT and records departments, and attorneys on board is likely the piece of this project that will take the most time.
Behavioral advertising seeks to target relevant content for individual Internet consumers, but to do so, it relies upon information specific to those individuals. As a result, there has been some concern about the proper handling of private information relating to Internet consumers.
Before jumping into making any major cloud computing decisions for your law firm, here are the questions to ask before converting.
Cyber security is once again front page news. Is your firm up to the challenge?
As reflected in the NIST definition of cloud computing, the most appealing aspect of using the cloud is the effective scalability, and therefore elastic cost, of the service.
On September 11th, many attorneys with offices in downtown Manhattan were hit with a dose of reality about managing their practices. For some, it was a hard lesson about what can happen if you forget to backup your computer data, client contacts, and practice management information. Yet the fact remains that backing up data is a lot like talking with your dentist about flossing: it's something that you probably hate doing.