Privacy and Data Security

An analysis of data from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) covering Q3 2022 – Q2 2023 by NetDocuments shows that 60% of identified data breaches in the UK legal sector …
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US cybersecurity and compliance company Proofpoint Inc announced this week that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire email security rival Tessian, which applies AI to automatically detect …
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In 2016, I wrote a review of ShareFile in which I called it one of the best products on the market for secure document storage and sharing by law firms. But then there came a period when ShareFile seemed to go quiet, at least in the legal market, with little outward evidence that it was making any effort to market
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In this episode of The Geek in Review podcast, host Marlene Gebauer and co-host Greg Lambert discuss cybersecurity challenges with guests ⁠Jordan Ellington⁠, founder of ⁠SessionGuardian⁠, ⁠Oren Leib⁠, Vice President of Growth and Partnership at SessionGuardian, and ⁠Trisha Sircar⁠, partner and chief privacy officer at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP.
Ellington explains that the impetus for creating
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The American Bar Association said last night that an unauthorized hacker gained access to the ABA network and may have acquired usernames and salted and hashed passwords that members would have used to access a prior version of the website. 
In a statement, the ABA said:
“On March 17, 2023, the ABA observed unusual activity on its network. The association
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