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Talk about lawyers’ hubris: although 49 percent of legal businesses believe they will experience a data breach in the next five years, almost as many – 46 percent – report they have left confidential documents out in the open.
The hubris, disclosed in Shred-it’s 2020 Data Protection Report, has practical consequences: 24 percent of clients said they would stop doing business with firms that experienced a data breach.
“Legal businesses need to close this transparency gap and demonstrate to their clients that the protection of their data is important to them,” said Michael Borromeo, Vice-President of Data Protection at Stericycle, which provides Shred-It information security solutions to business, in an email responding to written questions from LegalWriter.net. “Thus, it’s important to ensure that organizational processes are in place to support the goal of maintaining privileged and confidential information sharing.”
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