Security

Articles

• Tech Tips For Your New Year (spyware/malware, viruses, hackers), by Brent Simon, The Docket, December 2007
• The Matrix Unloaded: Coping with Computer Spyware, by Charles F. Luce, Jr., The Colorado Lawyer, September 2005
• Law Office Security, Part I: The Threat from Within, by Susan H. Borgos, The Colorado Lawyer, April 2003
• Law Office Security, Part II: Building the Castle Moat, by Sharon D. Nelson and John W. Simek, The Colorado Lawyer, June 2003

Books

• Information Security and Privacy (2011) (Table of Contents)
  Thomas J. Shaw, Esq. (Editor)
  Today more than ever, legal practitioners need to fully understand the obligations, liabilities, risks and treatments involving information security and privacy. Top executives must have a firm grasp of the information security and privacy statutes and regulations in each country where they do business, including any industry sector-specific rules. This book provides a practical and comprehensive approach to information security and privacy law for both international and domestic statutes. It provides all the tools you need to handle the business, legal and technical risks of protecting information on a global scale. For anyone responsible for or advising a corporation involved in domestic or international business, who must comply with a dizzying array of statutes, regulations, technologies, methodologies and standards, this book is the invaluable resource you've been looking for.

• Information Security for Lawyers and Law Firms (2006) (Table of Contents)
  Sharon D. Nelson, David K. Isom,and John W. Simek (Editors)
  This book is important for lawyers and all the others who combine to provide legal services. The spirit of this book is to help, to give advice, and to suggest guidelines—not to try to announce standards for judging or discipline. I believe this book achieves the important goal that we set: to write simply and clearly to bridge the worlds of law and technology on important information security issues that legal professionals face every day. Be forewarned that information security is a moving target, and the true watchwords for dealing with it successfully are eternal vigilance.
  Click HERE to read a review by Michael D. Brown in The Colorado Lawyer.

• Locked Down (2012) (Table of Contents)
  Sharon D. Nelson, David G. Ries, and John W. Simek
  In 2009, an FBI advisory warned that law firms are being increasingly targeted by identity thieves and hackers. In an age where lawyers frequently conduct business across wireless networks using smartphones and laptops, how can attorneys safeguard client data and confidential information? Locked Down explains the wide variety of information security risks facing law firms and how lawyers can best protect their data from these threats--with any budget. Written in clear, non-technical language that any lawyer can understand, this book will help you: Create secure passwords--and store them safely; Assess the existing security risks at your firm: server rooms, cleaning crews, guests, alarm systems, and more; Work securely from a laptop or smartphone; Authenticate users and encrypt your data; Maintain e-mail integrity; Secure your wired or wireless network; Effectively wipe data from a hard drive before disposal; and Investigate, contain, and recover from a security breach.