Top 3 Latest Cloud Innovations For Lawyers
1. Mobile
Mobile devices have played a huge role in the uprising of the cloud and its popularity in law firms. The widespread adoption of cloud services among lawyers has been mainly because of mobile and cloud apps that have provided lawyers with a myriad of benefits including increased efficiency, cost reduction, flexibility, high availability and efficient time-management.
Mobile has allowed lawyers to ditch the office and turn to a virtual office- completely mobile and remote. The majority of legal work can be accomplished directly from mobile devices at any location that has internet access. Legal documents can be created, shared and signed by using cloud apps.
Mobile has allowed lawyers to ditch the office and turn to a virtual office- completely mobile and remote. The majority of legal work can be accomplished directly from mobile devices at any location that has internet access. Legal documents can be created, shared and signed by using cloud apps.
2. Endorsements
When the cloud was first introduced, the legal profession was extremely cautious, and many bar associations recommended that lawyers not use it for legal work until security concerns could be resolved. Now that the majority of the security concerns have been resolved, a number of bar associations now simply advise that lawyers disclose their use of the cloud to clients and do complete background and research on cloud providers to ensure they are treating the data with care.
3. Security
Security has been an issue for lawyers ever since the cloud first began making waves in the tech world. The legal profession has actually been every slow to adapt to the new technology, and much of the reasoning behind this has been because of security and ethics concerns. But lately, the majority of security concerns have been squashed. Cloud security is actually much higher than the typical in-premise security. How many lawyers can actually walk past their receptionist's computer (or their own) without seeing sticky notes or other papers with written-down instructions, passwords, accounts, client notes, etc. With cloud security, all that information is securely locked behind military-grade encryption, strong authentication and (if enabled) secondary authentication measures such as two-step verification. Virtually the only current security threat to cloud security is human error, which is the leading cause of data loss in the cloud.
Cloud backup and data loss protection
Human error consists of accidental deletions, file misplacement, loss of account credentials, accidental ToS violations and other mistakes that can lead to data loss or loss of account access in the cloud. While there is no fail-proof security system that can protect 100% against human error, one cloud service comes nearly close enough to being perfect- cloudHQ.
The cloudHQ data loss protection system works by providing automatic, real-time replication of all cloud data to a completely separate cloud account. So even if human error causes massive amounts of data loss, or just the loss of a single file, cloudHQ has a complete secondary copy of all of your cloud data stored on the backup account. And since cloudHQ replicates in real-time, even if the data loss happens while you are working, cloudHQ will have you, your data and any changes protected up to that point, so the most data you may lose is a few seconds.
Human error is prevalent and will never completely vanish, but you can protect your confidential and sensitive data from being lost by using the best cloud backup and replication service available- cloudHQ.
The cloudHQ data loss protection system works by providing automatic, real-time replication of all cloud data to a completely separate cloud account. So even if human error causes massive amounts of data loss, or just the loss of a single file, cloudHQ has a complete secondary copy of all of your cloud data stored on the backup account. And since cloudHQ replicates in real-time, even if the data loss happens while you are working, cloudHQ will have you, your data and any changes protected up to that point, so the most data you may lose is a few seconds.
Human error is prevalent and will never completely vanish, but you can protect your confidential and sensitive data from being lost by using the best cloud backup and replication service available- cloudHQ.
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