LITIGATION AND PRACTICE SUPPORT
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ILTA's 2017 Litigation and Practice Support Technology Survey Results
Does your firm have a policy or requirement regarding encryption of data when it is transferred outside of your litigation/practice
support group? If so, what is required? By Survey Year
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45%
All data leaving the firm is encrypted, no exceptions
All data leaving the organization is encrypted, no exceptions
Data is encrypted by default unless requested not to
None of the above
There is no policy or requirement, but data is encrypted on
demand
There is no policy or requirement, data is encrypted only when
required by clients
Q40N
Does your firm have a policy or requirement regarding encryption of data when it is transferred
outside of your litigation/practice support group? If so, what is required? BY Survey Year
YEAR 2016 YEAR 2017
2016 2017
Count % Count %
All data leaving the organization is encrypted, no exceptions 56 28.7% 38 38.4%
Data is encrypted by default unless requested not to 48 24.6% 26 26.3%
None of the above 11 5.6% 6 6.1%
There is no policy or requirement, but data is encrypted on
demand
54 27.7% 19 19.2%
There is no policy or requirement, data is encrypted only when
required by clients
26 13.3% 10 10.1%
Total 195 100.0% 99 100.0%
