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As cloud applications are gaining increased acceptance in the legal world, law firms and organizations need to develop intelligent policies to mitigate risks to protect client and firm data. Recent events have driven home that law firms have been lax with their care of client data in-house as firms and it is incumbent on firms to do more to improve data security in-house. Cloud-based solutions and applications, generally, will provide firms with greater security from a software perspective but firms must still engage more completely in tasks across the board to improve security.
Law firms need to be able to engage with the cloud in a meaningful way, understand how the firm’s data stored on the cloud is being protected, and intelligently evaluate the security protocols of all service providers that they and their employees—whether associates, paralegals, or assistants—use.