Is Cloud Computing Safe For Lawyer Data?

Computer security is not an optional topic for lawyers, who have a professional responsibility to keep their clients’ data and information safe and secure from prying eyes. But, in a world where everything is stored in the cloud, is there a reasonable way to do that? What cloud providers are safe and secure and how is a lawyer to decide? In a world where nothing is private, how can we make certain that we and our clients have privacy? I suggest that Dilbert is the wrong place to begin the inquiry.

        

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