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What’s Keeping Legal IT Executives Up at Night? – Findings from an ASI Think Tank
A recently convened group of IT executives from both Law Firms and Corporate Legal Departments (CLDs) met at a luncheon hosted by Adaptive to discuss the latest trends in Legal IT. Of the many issues discussed, it seems there are several items that tend to keep them up at night. Here, I’ve summarized these items…
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Uses and Setup of Azure Site Recovery Explained
Microsoft provides two ways to backup and recover data using its Azure cloud platform, Azure Backup Server (ABS) and Azure Site Recovery (ASR). With Microsoft’s well-known penchant for fragmenting their own technologies is this more of the same? In this case, no. These two services satisfy different requirements and should be employed to achieve separate…
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The Language of Information Security – The Devil is in the Details
A theme I touch on regularly is that learning information security is like learning a new language. I remember the first time I took a German language course in school, and something caught my attention. The teacher had to spend a surprising amount of time teaching the class English first. What a surprise! Every person…
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Migrations Without the Migraine
Much like a migraine, migrating data from one system to another can be very painful. I’m sure most I.T. folks could easily list at least a dozen reasons why. Rather than give any attention to the pain, I’d like to focus on what can be done to relieve it. I get migraines regularly. I do…
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Top 5 Reasons Your Project Needs a Project Manager
Project Impresario A Project Manager understands all the moving parts within a project. From Initiating to Closure, the Project Manager is responsible for disseminating updates to the team and stakeholders. Their ability to identify when tasks should occur and how various pieces fit together is a core necessity for any project. Whether it be resources,…
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How to "ACE" Your Migration to iManage Work 10
I recently had the opportunity to speak at iManage Connect Live 2018. The presentation called “iManage Work Security 101: What you Need to Know Before Moving to Work 10 or the Cloud” provided a fundamental understanding of iManage security considerations. Here, I will focus on Work 10 best practices in 3 areas: Authentication Communication Encryption…
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Answering Questions About the Latest iManage Upgrades and Add-ons
Attorneys have been trained to reject risk. Many spend their lives advising how to avoid mistakes, or counseling clients who have already made them. However, what is the impact of being risk averse to technology innovation? Firms that do not embrace digital transformation will be squeezed on profitability, growth and future opportunity. This could present…
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How Law Firms Can Better Implement Information Security
What is information security, and how do we do it better? At LegalSEC 2018 I had the privilege of participating on a panel that addressed this topic. Our panel included a Principal Security Architect (myself), an Information Security Officer, and an IT Manager. The takeaway: Different roles in a firm each have a different view…
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Azure Data Protection – An Overview of Your Options
With Microsoft’s cloud solution there seems to be a dizzying array of options to secure data, with new ones coming out all the time. There is Azure Site Recovery (ASR), Azure Information Protection (AIP), Customer Key (new and not fully rolled out), Azure BitLocker, Key Vault, and the list goes on. Some of these solutions…
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Windows 10 – Time to Wake Up the Baby
A year or so ago, a group of us at Adaptive gave a series of presentations up and down the east coast, focusing on the merits and perils of upgrading the legal desktop to Windows 10. One of the first slides in the presentation bore the title “The traditional legal desktop; never wake a sleeping…
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