Law Practice Management and Technology
The Bottom Line Volume 35, No. 2, April 2014
Content
- MCLE Self-Study Article Disaster Preparedness Guidelines for Law Practices
- Adopting Word 2013 at Your Law Firm
- E-Mail Efficiency, Time Management and Mobile Communication Courtesy in 2014
- Message From the Editors
- Message From the Chair: Cybersecurity in the Golden State
- Press Release: Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Issues Guide for Small Businesses to Protect Against Cyber Attacks, Data Breaches
- Coach's Corner: Exercise Your Business Acumen
- The Dangers of “Bring Your Own Cloud” (Byoc) During e-Discovery
- Everything Old Is New Again
- New Member Benefit: TechnoLawyer Archive®
The Dangers of “Bring Your Own Cloud†(BYOC) During e-Discovery
By Bill Tolson
President, Tolson Communications LLC
In the last year there have been numerous articles, blogs, webinars and panels discussing the legal perils of “Bring Your Own Device†or BYOD policies. BYOD refers to the policy of permitting employees to bring personally owned mobile devices (laptops, tablets, and smart phones) to the workplace and to use those devices to conduct company business while accessing privileged company information and applications. The problem with BYOD is the company’s ability to access those devices as needed for things like eDiscovery search and litigation hold.
For example, how would you search for potentially relevant content on a smartphone if the employee wasn’t immediately available or refused to give the company access to it? Or how would you stop an employee from deleting data from the smart phone before you had contacted them?
Many organizations are considering or have already banned BYOD as a security risk (lost phones) as well as an eDiscovery liability.