Sorry Ford: digital security is the new Job One.

Stephanie Kimbro’s “Top Ten Basic Security Practices for a Virtual Law Office” on her blog Virtual Law Practice. Although Kimbro’s intended audience for this post is the virtual law office crowd, her security tips make sense for everyone. Keeping your data secure–whether you’re working from home or in a brick and mortar office or even (gasp…) sitting at your favorite coffee shop–is vital to your practice, to your clients, to your reputation. And it’s getting harder to do: according to a recent Ponemon Institute study, the chance of being hacked has become a “statistical certainty” for businesses of every type and size. Read the post. You need to know this stuff.