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Public Sector Brings New Cybersecurity Tech to Market

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Here’s follow-up on a recent blog on emerging public and private sector roles in protecting against state-actor corporate cyberattacks.

Did you hear about the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate’s commercialization of another Transition to Practice program technology?

The new industrial control systems cybersecurity solution — called SerialTap — passively taps serial-line communication data for use with enterprise cybersecurity incident and event management systems to improve situational awareness during an event. SerialTap integrates with legacy IT enterprise security solutions and industrial control systems used by critical infrastructure sectors.

The SerialTap announcement came during Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month, which aimed at building awareness of the importance of critical infrastructure, and reaffirming “the nationwide commitment to keep our critical infrastructure and our communities safe and secure.”

Good to see the public sector sharing new technology to improve cybersecurity incident response.

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Turn Legal Client “Needs Improvement” Grades into A’s with Information Governance


Organizing Information Governance in Law Firms

Corporate clients have essentially two major “needs improvement” areas for their law firms over the last few years. One, clients want more efficient delivery of legal services with transparent value. The discussions on alternative fees, refusals to pay for 1st-year associates that are still learning, and lack of basic efficiency drivers such as project management are well documented. The second main area of concern is information security – how good is their firm at protecting sensitive client data from cyber-threats and running afoul of privacy regulations with information breaches?

A new report by the Law Firm Information Symposium published yesterday by Iron Mountain, makes the case that firms can make progress in both these areas by building out an information governance (IG) organization. Read more here to learn how an umbrella IG organization and culture can drive business efficiencies and information security to turn client “needs improvement” grades into A’s.

Carolyn Casey, a member of the California bar, provides consulting and marketing services to legal organizations. She founded the Law Firm Information Governance Symposium while at Iron Mountain.