The World Economic Forum (WEF) just published their recent survey of worldwide corporate leaders. When asked about technology objectives that have become a greater priority due to COVID-19, they elevated information security to the No. 1 position, with business continuity and resilience following right after. These days, that's practically all in the IT domain. 

 

Here is a list of the five main cybersecurity challenges that global leaders identified should be tackled (better) in 2021. Cybersecurity is a board-level issue now for many firms:

Topics: cybersecurity, Business Continuity, COVID-19

The ongoing breach affecting thousands of organizations that relied on hacked products by network software firm SolarWinds may have jeopardized the privacy of countless sealed court documents on file with the U.S. federal court system, according to a memo from the Administrative Office (AO) of the U.S. Courts.

Topics: cybersecurity, Hacking, Information Security

The Internal Revenue Service and its Security Summit partners today issued warnings to all taxpayers and tax professionals to beware of scams and identity theft schemes by criminals taking advantage of the combination of holiday shopping, the approaching tax season and coronavirus concerns.

Topics: Security, cybersecurity

Don't miss Innovative founder and CEO Michael Kemps' latest essay with advice on legal technology budget planning for 2021 in Legaltech News:

Topics: Technology Consulting, Cloud, Articles, Business Continuity

Clients with macOS in their environments should be aware of two recently released important advisories:

Topics: Alerts, macOS

 

Topics: Security, cybersecurity, Ransomware, Information Security, Privacy

With all of our clients upgraded to Windows 10, we wanted to address some common questions about the Operating System and the new ways in which Microsoft is supporting the product. Gone are the days of the past where Microsoft would release a new version of an operating system every 5 years, opting instead to make incremental improvements to Windows 10 indefinitely.

Topics: Technology Consulting, Windows 10, Microsoft, EOL, Licensing

 

Topics: Technology Consulting, Cloud, SMB

Citrix recently informed Partners that they are retiring their perpetual licensing model and replacing it with a subscription-based model. 

Topics: Technology Consulting, Alerts, Citrix

We have been alerted that HPE strongly recommends upgrading their Smart Array Gen10 Server Controllers to the latest firmware to prevent potential data inconsistency on select RAID configurations at your earliest convenience. 

Topics: Alerts, HPE, Servers

Please be advised that clients using Macs to access iManage must update their clients by October 1, 2020 to address certificate expirations due for versions 10.1.3 to 10.2.3 of Work Desktop for Mac.¹

Topics: Technology Consulting, Alerts

Prioritize Your Legal Technology Investments

Topics: Articles, Innovative Cloud Solution, Business Continuity

Innovative Computing Systems, Inc. is proud to sponsor and exhibit at the Association of Legal Administrators' ALA Today: The Virtual Conference on June 25, 2020.

 

Topics: ALA, Events

 

As it has for large swaths of the economy, the novel coronavirus pandemic offered many U.S.-based law firms their first opportunity to truly put their business continuity plans to the test. Whether firm leadership relied on established, written-down plans or winged it with ad hoc fixes as problems arose, the sudden issuance of various varieties of stay-at-home/shelter-in-place orders (and the still-ongoing reopenings) has driven home the need for planning to continue operations under a variety of less-than-ideal or expected conditions.

Topics: Disaster Recovery, Survey, Business Continuity, COVID-19