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I L T A W H I T E P A P E R | L I T I G A T I O N A N D P R A C T I C E S U P P O R T 39 as GDPR and CCPA. These three pillars are put in place to influence current and future behavior in a workplace. ediscovery, on the other hand, focuses on past workplace behaviors in the context of a specific fact pattern. The key difference, however, is many of the skills necessary in the practice of ediscovery transfer to governance, risk and compliance. As ediscovery professionals, we have always asked detailed questions to understand our client data in connection with past workplace behaviors in the context of litigation. We understand data in ways that most people do not, which perfectly situates ediscovery professionals for crossover to the world of security, compliance and privacy. As crossover occurs we have the opportunity to expand our understanding of data types, placement, storage, infrastructure, work flows and privacy, security and compliance efforts to better serve our organizations and clients. Cloud computing is growing in positive and dynamic ways to aid in keeping data more accessible, more mobile and more protected. As IoT and remote access enables more flexibility in ediscovery we also need to understand what other sensitive data is available on those same devices and what measures we can put in place to insure security and maintain the convenience of mobile access. These go beyond ediscovery protocols as work flow increasingly demands the considerations of security and privacy policies. The months leading up to May 25th last year had domestic and global organizations in proactive and panic modes as General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) went live. The strongest directives with financial consequences help shape the enthusiasm for organizations to know their data. Global and competitive companies under GDPR's scope now have documentation and best practices that are bleeding into domestic templates for engagement, some of which are required to be considered for business partnerships. While it's easy to assume the big tech companies are going to be the headlines to establish precedence for compliance (or lack thereof), it is important to understand data privacy principles in our own work, on our own projects, for our own clients – global or not. So, what does this mean for your career? We spoke with Jared Coseglia of TRU Staffing Partners regarding this convergence. Coseglia is at the forefront of the changing employment landscape for legal technolo professionals, with a focus on the growing need for IG, privacy and cybersecurity professionals in the legal market as well as the continuous demand for ediscovery talent. Coseglia sees significant overlap in skillset among these groups but not a great deal of movement currently to new employment from an exclusively ediscovery position to a cybersecurity, IG or privacy centric one. Rather, he sees employees who have taken initiative to gain additional skills have success redefining their existing role at their current employer before transitioning to new a new employer in a new discipline. That mindset is more likely to foster successful reinvention in this convergence of disciplines. Coseglia points out that while cybersecurity is a booming industry, often heavily focused on technical expertise, many practitioners struggle to hone communication skills as acutely as peers in tertiary disciplines. Ediscovery is a mature industry, ripe with great communicators, skilled at selling complex and expensive processes to people who, quite frankly, don't want to buy them. Privacy and cybersecurity are in the news every day and the fear of a data or privacy breach is palpable. As the industry matures and corporations C O N V E R G E N C E O F P R I V A C Y , S E C U R I T Y , & E D I S C O V E R Y : M A K I N G A P R O W E L L - R O U N D E D We understand data in ways that most people do not, which perfectly situates ediscovery professionals for crossover to the world of security, compliance and privacy.

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