The document provides tips for achieving technical competence in law practices, including recognizing outdated views of technology, understanding legal obligations to maintain competence, protecting sensitive data, addressing human vulnerabilities, considering cybersecurity insurance and audits, effectively managing documents, and preparing for future technological changes. Law firms are encouraged to update business practices, provide technology training for lawyers, demand competent counsel from vendors, conduct security audits, potentially hire a CIO, and think differently about the role of technology.

1. kill the dinosaurs, and
other tips for achieving
technical competence in
your law practice
2015 JOLT Symposium
Antigone Peyton, Esq.
Founder & CEO, Cloudigy Law
PLLC
#JOLTdinos
Twitter: @AntigonePeyton

2. Dinosaur Thoughts…
• Fax & Email are Secure
• Public WiFi is Great!
• Paper & Electronic Worlds,
All the Same
• Merging Personal & Firm
Data, No Big Deal
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3. extinction Milestones:
• 2004 Zubulake Case; 2010
Pension Committee Case
• Update: ABA Model Rule 1.1
Competence
• Edward Snowden
• NSA Snooping on Law Firm
Communications?
• Ethics Updates on Cloud
Computing
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4. What Can We Do
to Change Them?
• Changes to Business Model, New Best
Practices
• CLE Includes Tech Competence
• Clients Demand Competent Counsel
• Security Audits
• Next hire—CIO/CTO?
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5. Protecting Sensitive Data
• Review Service & Product Providers’ TOS and
Privacy Policies
• What’s on the Office Copier Hard Drive?
• Networking Devices
• Security on Mobile Devices and BYOD Issues
• Detecting Viruses, Malware, and Spyware
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6. Protecting Sensitive Data
• VPN, No “Public Wi-Fi”
• Encrypting Internet & Cell Communications on
Mobile Devices
• Only Authenticated Devices on Firm Network
• System is Only as Safe as the Weakest Link
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7. Weak Links are Everywhere
• Human Factors Create
Weakest Links!
• Passwords
• Unsecured, Unattended
Computers & Devices

8. Cybersecurity Insurance
& Audits
• Do You Need It?
• What Does Insurance
Cover?
• Who’s Reading My
Communications?
• System Monitoring
Options
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9. It’s Not the Cloud, It’s you
• Online System
Redundancy
• Off-Site Disaster
Recovery Backup
• Adequate Physical
& Virtual Protection
• Location of Data
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10. Document Management
• Centralized Data Storage
• Encrypted Communication w/in System, Encryption
at Rest
• Access History Logging
• Passwords Not Stored w/ Data or Employee
Accessible
• Data Center Security & Remote Data Redundancy
• Meeting HIPAA, Privacy, EAR, ITAR, etc.
Requirements
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11. The Future is Now,
Change How You Think
• Tagged Client Files for
Tracking & DMCA
• Secure Your WiFi
Network
• Regular Technology
Education Sessions

12. Questions?
antigone.peyton@cloudigylaw.com
Twitter: @antigonepeyton
@cloudigylaw
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