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I L T A W H I T E P A P E R | P R A C T I C E M A N A G E M E N T 9 Cybersecurity It's reasonable to say that those of us who were part of the adoption of the internet were a bit naive in the ways we used the seemingly ever-growing number of personal computing and communications technologies to not only conduct the same day-to- day transactions we were accustomed to but also discover and/or create – and thus disclose – new sources of information and data. As we slowly come to terms with the lost innocence of those early days online, we have increasingly, if haltingly, learned that the security we assumed implicit in our agreements to share data with businesses online was seemingly based in large part on the concept of out of sight, out of mind: if we couldn't see the data, it must be secure. Businesses and others, including criminals, were much quicker to envision the potential for profit from that combination of naivete and rich data stores hidden in plain sight on unencrypted servers. Regulations Complexity has increased – and for good reason – as new constraints have been imposed on businesses collecting, enriching, selling and sharing personal information. The role of legal professionals in cybersecurity is clearer than ever after the adoption and implementation of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, Delaware Data Breach Law, GDPR and other regulations. Unfortunately, beyond writing and interpreting the law, they tend to remain laggards in adopting the necessary cybersecurity tools to adequately protect client data. Responsibility Legal professionals clearly understand the necessity of maintaining the security of clients' data based on the ethical obligations of their chosen profession. The field's reliance on trust and confidentiality has always made law firms attractive prey for their rich stores of closely held information that is easily mortally wounded by seemingly small injuries in reputation. As the world increasingly digitizes, legal professionals are faced with growing technolo-related responsibilities. But it is ultimately unreasonable to expect law firms to become technolo companies. Partnering with an experienced legal industry-focused managed service provider can prevent that expectation from growing within a firm. By providing the innovative software needed on up-to-date devices always connected to a solid, secure infrastructure, MSPs can remove the unwanted aspects of our increasingly technolo-driven workplaces – internet downtime, patching, upgrades, moving technolo between locations, building out a new "As the world increasingly digitizes, legal professionals are faced with growing technolo- related responsibilities."

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