Security
Are there Alternatives to Dropbox?
By Nerino Petro at 8 July, 2011, 4:39 pm
Dropbox has quickly become a widely used product and service with a good reputation at least up until recently. In the last few months, Dropox has made a number of misstatements and gaffes regarding who has access to your data and to what extent that Dropbox could make of it. From a lawyers perspective, Dropbox should not be used for confidential or other sensitive data unless it’s been encrypted prior to uploading to your Dropbox account.
Read More >>ioSafe debuts new Rugged Portable external drives at CES
By Nerino Petro at 6 January, 2011, 7:35 pm
I’m a big fan of ioSafe external hard drives for data backup and protection from fire, water or impact (go ahead, crush it with a tank). You can check out videos of their drives being torched, dunked, crushed by a tank at the links below the break. However, weighing in at 15lbs, no one would call their previous products portable. That’s all changed with the introduction of their ioSafe Rugged Portable line of drives at his years Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, NV..
Read More >>Read ‘Avoiding ethical pitfalls with electronic documents’ co-authored with Bryan Sims
By Nerino Petro at 19 July, 2010, 4:22 pm
The State Bar of Wisconsin has published a two part article I co-authored with Bryan Sims of The Connected Lawyer in the July editions of its InsideTrack e-newsletter. Titled ‘Avoiding ethical pitfalls with electronic documents’ , part 1 is on Metadata and part 2 is on Redaction.
Read More >>Danger Will Robinson: One Email Causes Big Headache for a Small Law Firm
By Nerino Petro at 18 March, 2010, 11:49 am
For everyone who remembers t he 1960′s SciFi series Lost in Space, the events that recently hit Crosby Higgins LLP would be the point in the show where the robot says Danger, Will Robinson, danger.. Every lawyer should read One Very Small Law Firm; One Extremely Large Computer Virus found at the Wall Street Journal Law Blog. In his post, author Ashby Jones details how this latest scam impacted this firm and the stress placed on it’s staff.
Read More >>Legal Implications of Cloud Computing
By Nerino Petro at 20 October, 2009, 7:00 am
Whether we want to admit it or not, cloud computing is making an impact on the way we practice law as well as the way our clients approach computing and information storage. Lawyers need to have a t least a basic understanding of the benefits and potential pitfalls that this new technology will impose.
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