Data security is gaining ever-increasing interest among information systems users, especially when it comes to classified or sensitive information.

The lately uncovered cyber-attacks on the U.S. government and the crashes of Google’s services certainly do not diminish concerns for your own security. Data leaks in Finland and Sweden are also fresh in memory.

In this post, I will highlight some basic things worth sorting out. There are several things you can do yourself or together with your IT support. In addition to the basics, I'll mention some features of the CSI softwares that can help you further improve your security.

This spring the worldwide pandemic known as the coronavirus has affected us all. CSI is in a fortunate position comparing to the average company: our clients need our software to manage their assignments and invoicing even during the crisis. 

The drastic change in our working environment caused by the pandemic has led to improvements that Legal Tech seminars have pursued for years. 

The first CSI Lawyer version was published already 11 years ago. Since then, we have continuously developed its functionality according to our clients' needs and regulatory changes. The annual version updates have brought, for example, the review process of preliminary invoices, e-invoicing, assignment phases, sub-assignments, dashboards, mailing lists and management of customer identification. The list is long. Fewer changes have taken place in the system's user interface, although customer expectations regarding the usability have also increased.

Mid October, CSI participated for the 5th time VQ Forum in Stockholm. It was the last time VQ Forum was organized, but during the last ten years it has become an important legal tech event. This year, the main topic was “Law 2.0”, and the speakers covered e.g. digital transformation of the legal industry, current status of the digitalization process as well as the future of legal services.

The race on features is tough. You have to offer superior features - or at least they have to be better than your competitors.

That's what we've gotten used to. Cars are sold with the best performance and additional features or with advanced environmental friendliness. Your choice of a computer is either the highest-performing machine, the hottest novelty, or the best value for money. Similarly, different systems are compared based on their functionality, even if most of it might be unnecessary.