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Sensei Pens Column For Above The Law

May 8, 2024

Above the Law  recently featured the Sensei article entitled “Cloud Security Advice for Law Firms” by Sharon Nelson, John Simek and Michael Maschke. This article is the latest in a new monthly series entitled Cybersecurity: Tips From the Trenches.

Excerpt:

A firm’s own actions can make a secure vendor cloud service very unsecure.

With amazing speed, we’ve become a very mobile society. Mobile phones are the main computing device for most people. To support a mobile environment, cloud services are growing by leaps and bounds. In the last several years, we can only recall one instance of implementing an on-premises server for a law firm. Just one. And that solution was a non-negotiable demand from the law firm’s largest client. Apart from that one exception, law firms are universally accepting a cloud first mentality.

It is one thing to provide technology to support the business function, but many law firms don’t pay much attention to securing the cloud environment. They trust the vendor to provide secure cloud applications for the firm. However, many lawyers (especially solo and small firm attorneys) don’t know that their own actions can make a secure vendor cloud service very unsecure.

Read the entire article here.