Overview

Lawyers have ethical, legal, and fiduciary duties to protect their client’s information, but clients are also demanding their lawyer adopt measures to protect the privacy of their electronic communications.

Solution Scenarios

Send client negotiations, contracts financials, and litigation via email securely. Solution: Encrypted Mail

Protect customer information that is stored on hard drives, laptops and portable devices. Solution: Encrypted Documents

Create a secure collaborative community for merger and acquisition deals that involves a team and provides a full audit trail. Solution: Encrypted Message eXchange

Why Encrypt?

Compliance and Risk

The standard disclaimer that appears at the end of virtually every lawyers email message is no longer the solution to protect the confidential nature of attorney-client communications.

Lawyers have ethical, legal, and fiduciary duties to protect their client’s information, but clients are also demanding their lawyer adopt measures to protect the privacy of their electronic communications.

Privacy Legislation

• Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) governs integrity of financial operations of publicly traded companies
• Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) requires that all financial institutions protect customer information
• California Security Breach Notification Act (CB 1386) requires disclosure when private personal information of a California resident has been compromised
• Data Protection Directive - National governments in all 25 member states to the European Union

Client Service and Value

• Speed-to-market with confidential documents
• Meets compliance regulations and corporate privacy policies
• Non-compliance can have a negative impact on brand image
• Customer and partner communications always remain protected
• Reinforces concern about customer privacy (e.g. identity theft) from password intercept and theft

Key Benefits

Encryption for legal professionals provides:

• Efficient delivery of confidential documents to clients
• Faster client and partner communication
• Secure reply delivers secure two-way communication for faster turn-around time
• Faster response time to open issues
• Quick corporate wide deployment
• Cost effective per user pricing
• No end user training required
• Minimal IT support required to manage users
• Significant ROI by decreasing courier costs and replacing paper based communication with email

Technology

The Echoworx Secure Services (ESS) platform is based on industry trusted standard PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) and S/MIME technologies for strong encryption and digital signatures, relying on standard X.509 certificates that are issued and managed for Echoworx’s data privacy applications, which include: Encrypted Mail, Encrypted Documents, Encrypted Document Presentment, and Encrypted Message eXchange.

The ESS platform is hosted in high-availability data centers operated by world class Application Service Providers. These data centers optimize data communications, message processing and storage of large volumes of data and offer fully redundant and uninterrupted service levels. The ESS platform provides a security framework that simplifies the end user experience of sending, receiving and storing encrypted documents by automating the management and use of digital credentials.

• Carrier Grade Architecture
  Unlimited scalability and high availability service.
• Standards Based Solution
  Industry-trusted PKI, X.509 certificates and cryptographic standards.
• Messages integrity
  Ensures message integrity through the application based digital signatures.
• Certification Authority Included
  No need to deploy and maintain expensive third party Certificate Authorities.
• Simple Deployment
  Fully hosted solution requires no end user administration.
• Simple Administration
  Intuitive and easy to use administration console for enrolling/disabling end users and resetting passwords.
• Industry Standard Encryption
  PKI, X.509, S/MIME, 3DES. AES, 128-bit SSL, 1024 bit RSA keys with MDS and SHA-1.