Linked: Ongoing M365 Tenant Upgrades/Migrations
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Linked: Ongoing M365 Tenant Upgrades/Migrations

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

It’s not normal for us to be using a platform that works one way, then changes and works another way two weeks later, but that is absolutely the way the Agile development is going to happen. The decision to change will be pushed by the business case for making the change, eDiscovery will be a second thought, if a thought at all.

That means two things in my mind in addition to the things Greg lays out in his post below.

1. You have to test, test, test. Constantly. You have to stay on top of new features, old feature changes, undocumented changes, etc.

2. The legal industry as a whole is going to have to get a lot more comfortable with “good faith efforts” being a little more of a gray area as these changes get made. What we could collect easily before, may require a lot more time and effort today, or it may not be possible today because of a bug in a recent update.

It’s going to happen. Whether you want to talk about M365, Google, cloud document management, cloud review platforms, or even cloud backups. Things will happen beyond our ability to control them, and those things will impact eDiscovery. Are we going to be OK accepting that?

Data Privacy versus Security versus the Elephant in the Room

Data Privacy versus Security versus the Elephant in the Room

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

As always, I read with great interest David Horrigan’s look at finding a balance between privacy and crime prevention when it comes to Automated License Plate Recognition. I think David’s take-away quote from attorney Gail Gottehrer at the end is a great effort at finding a middle-road between “track everything in case there’s a crime”,…

What I’m Sharing (weekly) July 5, 2020

What I’m Sharing (weekly) July 5, 2020

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Innovation Tips and Priorities for Mid-sized Law Firms UNPREPARED FOR THE DEEPFAKE? Beware “secure DNS” scam targeting website owners and bloggers How E-Discovery Software Is Helping Battle COVID-19 Let Yourself Be Unproductive. At Least for a Little While. Detroit police chief cops to 96-percent facial recognition error rate Microsoft Releases Undelete Tool – Backups are…

Linked: Ransomware victims thought their backups were safe. They were wrong
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Linked: Ransomware victims thought their backups were safe. They were wrong

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

The backup has to be offline, disconnected from the computer that gets infected. “Keeping a backup copy of vital data is a good way of reducing the damage of a ransomware attack: it allows companies to get systems up and running again without having to pay off the crooks. But that backup data isn’t much…

Linked: Why you can’t bank on backups to fight ransomware anymore
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Linked: Why you can’t bank on backups to fight ransomware anymore

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

I’ve often given this advice myself, if you get hit with ransomware, you can recover if you have a decent backup plan that gets you an unlocked copy of the data that the ransomware encrypted. But, that was before the hackers changed their game plan, and now started taking data as well as encrypting your…

Linked: Ransomware Attackers Leak Stolen Data
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Linked: Ransomware Attackers Leak Stolen Data

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

This does make some sense. The arms race will continue. “With the rise of additional mitigation and recovery options that help organizations avoid paying the ransom, the next stage is to force payment, and it would be easy for the actor to post a number of example files to Pastebin,” perhaps initially in an encrypted…