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Reading – ILTACON on IT Security: Unsolvable vs. Risk Management

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

I didn’t manage to get to sessions where data security was the main topic, but I know it was a large topic of conversation all around the conference. Law firms are being held reaponsible by clients for keeping data that belongs to those clients secure, but it’s a tough thing to do when you don’t even know what data you have or where it’s been stored. Trying to do that is the first challenge many firms are facing.

ILTACON on IT Security: Unsolvable vs. Risk Management

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