Put A Lock On That Dropbox

How To Encrypt Your Cloud-Based Drive with Boxcryptor - How-To Geek. Okay, you are a technically sophisticated lawyer, and you religiously read the FutureLawyer and other tech blogs daily. Well, maybe not religiously, but occasionally. You are embracing the cloud for all sorts of things, like calendaring and email; and, you have even ventured into file sharing and storage in a cloud drive. You put files in Dropbox, and figure that these guys know what they are doing. Well, that doesn't mean that your files are necessarily secure. While all sorts of arguments can be made that files in the cloud are more secure than files on your local hard drive, any reasonable security precaution is not only smart; but, in the case of client confidential data, may be required under the Code of Professional Responsibility. The recent Dropbox security fiasco may have you leery of cloud based document storage. But, there are options to increase cloud security, and Boxcryptor is one. You can try this encryption software for free for up to 2 Gigabytes in a folder. Actually, most of your documents should fit in there, and breaking this level of encryption would require a team of experts and a lot of time, even if it could be done at all. Basic protection should be your first instinct; kind of like putting a really good deadbolt on the front door. So, encrypt that sucker, and sleep better at night.