Law firms exposed to file sharing security risk

Nearly nine out of ten (89 per cent ) law firms are using unencrypted emails as 'the dominant means for sharing privileged communications', according to research in the US by LexisNexis.

30 May 2014

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More than 70 per cent of firms ‘report that file sharing is increasingly important and there is a heightened awareness that if privileged information is compromised, the fall out for the law firm could spell disaster’, according to Lexis. Despite this, ‘an overwhelming 77 per cent of law firms report that their primary means of securing documents is a confidentiality statement below the body of an email’. Source: IT Business Net