In legal education conferences we hear that cybersecurity is very much on the minds of in-house lawyers. It’s one of the things that “keeps them up at night” (that and Jon Voight on Showtime as Mickey Donovan). Working with the corporate computer nerds, in-house lawyers are slowly learning what their company is doing to protect information and how it can improve. Meanwhile, data theft seems to be surging as threats arise from a variety of avenues, ranging from disgruntled employees to external parties. The recent theft of nude photos of popular celebrities from cloud-based storage systems is particularly unnerving because it highlights that data thieves prey on the very conveniences that draw us to technology. The easier technology is to use, the more vulnerable we become.
As corporations impose detailed due diligence requirements for risks such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and trade controls, the corporate law department is often silent when questioning external law firms on how they manage their clients’ sensitive information. In fact, third-party access may often pose the largest unmitigated risk to companies for data theft. The risks range from mobile device policies to uploading information to a cloud server.
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