Houston Regional Managing Partner Authors Article on How Employers Can Protect Against Cloud-based Data Pilfering

A recent article by Stephen Roppolo published in The Computer & Internet Lawyer, outlines several steps that companies can take to protect their data upon the departure of an employee.

“Misappropriation of trade secrets and confidential information used to involve an employee walking out the door with a box of records the employee spent copying after hours,” he wrote. “As technology has advanced, departing employees have begun to misappropriate more efficiently. This usually involves emailing documents to personal Gmail accounts or transferring reams of data to external hard drives or other USB storage devices.”

Stephen outlines several scenarios and provides strategies that employers can use to monitor and deter digital data theft.

Read the full article in The Computer & Internet Lawyer.