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Thinking about security
With that out the way, let’s get two things straight from the very beginning — and these will, I hope, set the tone for the recordings that follow.
You are never going to be “perfectly secure”.
Even if it was possible to protect everything against every possible attack – and I suspect that, technically, that’s simply not the case — it is not going to be affordable to do so.
If anyone insists that you must be perfectly or absolutely secure, they are asking you to do something which is unachievable.
Two. Security is not a place you can reach. It is not a destination.
Threats change, and means of protecting against those threats change. So security is an issue which you are going to need to continue to address, as one of the many ongoing responsibilities of being a lawyer.
If you are hoping that you can do something, put a tick in a box, and move on, never to think about it again, you’re going to be disappointed.
If you can get to a place where you are routinely identifying the threats which you are most likely to face, and taking precautions against them so that you remain “secure enough”, you are probably doing pretty well.
If you get nothing else from this site, hopefully it will be an encouragement to think about the kind of threats that you and your clients might face, and the types of mitigations and defences which might be available to you.