David Kalat

July 06, 2021 | Legaltech News

Not all collections are created equal. This month's history of cybersecurity explores how SafeBack and the forensic tools that followed it tackled collecting electronic evidence to maintain its reliability and validity.

By David Kalat, BRG

6 minute read

June 07, 2021 | Legaltech News

Apple's recent transition from Intel-based processors to a new M1 processor using so-called ARM technology has shaken the microprocessor world. But as this month's history of cybersecurity explores, ARM technology is not a recent phenomenon.

By David Kalat, BRG

5 minute read

May 05, 2021 | Legaltech News

The path leading to the likes of Siri and Alexa was long and winding. This month's history of cybersecurity looks back to the beginnings of voice recognition technology, from Bell's Automatic Digit Recognition machine to projects from DARPA funding.

By David Kalat, BRG

6 minute read

April 06, 2021 | Legaltech News

E-discovery may be common in today's legal world, but that certainly wasn't always the case. This month's history of cybersecurity looks back to how discovery technology was developed, and what it has to do with the Iran-Contra affair.

By David Kalat, BRG

6 minute read

March 02, 2021 | Legaltech News

This month's history of cybersecurity looks back to the formation of the CFAA, where there was broad agreement that computer crime was a serious and growing menace to the nation's security, but that consensus broke down when it came to defining exactly what "computer crime" was.

By David Kalat, BRG

7 minute read

February 08, 2021 | Legaltech News

Hacking into a federally secured system: actual child's play? This month's history of cybersecurity tells how a group of Milwaukee computer enthusiasts spurred congressional hearings to enact cybersecurity laws.

By David Kalat, BRG

6 minute read

January 08, 2021 | Legaltech News

This month's history of cybersecurity looks back at how predictive dialing software revolutionized the call center industry—and left behind a legacy that continues to be litigated to this day.

By David Kalat, BRG

6 minute read

December 08, 2020 | Legaltech News

Data breaches affecting millions of Americans is no new phenomenon. This month's history of cybersecurity explores the time in 1984 when over 90 million Americans had their credit histories exposed.

By David Kalat, BRG

5 minute read

November 09, 2020 | Legaltech News

Exactly how to share cellular connection has been the source of endless innovation, competition, debate, and patent wars. And in this month's history of cybersecurity, we explore how lessons learned from 3G can be applicable to the 5G landscape.

By David Kalat, BRG

6 minute read

October 07, 2020 | Legaltech News

This month's history of cybersecurity looks at the buffer overflow attack, which still remains a risk even more than 48 years after the problem was first diagnosed.

By David Kalat, BRG

6 minute read