High Volume: A Basic Encryption Strategy for Law Firms
Most lawyers have a general understanding of what encryption does. (If you don’t, let me introduce you to Wikipedia .) Nevertheless, most attorneys don’t feel like they have a comprehensive plan for managing encryption in their law firms, when it comes to sending secure files to clients and colleagues. That leaves a lot of law firms feeling a little insecure. But, there’s a simple strategy for managing encryption in law firms, that’s entirely based on the volume of files you need to encrypt. If you don’t send out a lot of documents that need to be encrypted , you can use the built-in tools in Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat to encrypt those documents. Apply passwords, and then call the recipient with the password -- don’t email it along with the document. If you do send out a lot of documents that need to be encrypted , use an email encryption system that will allow you to manually encrypt certain emails and their contents, or to automate t...