Law-firm security
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6 articles in this topic
Who Holds the Encryption Keys? A Lawyer's Guide to Legal Cloud Claims
How to distinguish encryption in transit, provider-managed encryption, customer-held keys, and provider-blind designs when evaluating legal software.
Read article →A Backup Is Not a Recovery Plan: What Law Firms Should Test
How to find out whether your firm can actually restore files, calendars, email, and practice data after ransomware, device loss, or a provider outage.
Read article →Wire-Fraud Defense for Law Firms: A Payment Verification Playbook
A straightforward procedure for verifying wire instructions, stopping email-account fraud, and responding when a payment may have gone to an impostor.
Read article →MFA for Law Firms: Which Methods Actually Resist Phishing?
Not all multifactor authentication provides the same protection. Here is how security keys, passkeys, authenticator apps, push prompts, and text codes differ.
Read article →How to Vet a Legal Tech Vendor's Security Claims
A practical checklist for examining access, encryption keys, audit reports, contracts, incidents, exports, and the limits of every vendor's claims.
Read article →ABA Model Rule 1.6 and Cloud Storage: What Lawyers Need to Know
A plain-language guide to reasonable safeguards, vendor review, encryption, access, breach response, exports, and local-first alternatives.
Read article →Usus Legal Technology Brief
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