Severin Marcombes is the founder and CEO of Lima, a personal cloud company, and these are three factors he thinks are influencing the current concerns over data privacy and security.

When most people think of the hottest areas for the tech sector, Indianapolis probably doesn’t immediately come to mind. But in recent years, the metro area has landed thousands of new tech jobs and its digital service sector is among the fastest-growing in the nation, nearly doubling in size since 2010.

A recent decision in the case Harleysville Insurance Company v. Holding Funeral Home is far more worrisome — because it deals with a fundamental misunderstanding of how a widely-used technology works, and once again, fairly or unfairly, casts the legal profession as the Johnny-come-lately to the modern world of…the internet.

Many people are still not taking routine precautions to safeguard their email accounts — and hackers are exploiting that.

It’s another busy day at the office when you receive an email with an attached memo. You don’t remember asking for the memo, but you download the attachment anyway. Alarm bells! It’s not an attachment. It’s malware that’s now infecting your computer and every other computer in your law firm.

Why should we need to use multiple phones to manage our business versus personal phone lines? Simple, inexpensive technology is available that will allow you to use just one smartphone with two phone lines.

Any discussion of data security in the cloud-computing era must first start with describing what the “cloud” is and what it can do. For those of you who do not yet know what the cloud is, you are not alone.

Where do you draw the line when the 4th Amendment creates a right to privacy and the 5th Amendment is meant to stop someone from incriminating themselves but meanwhile necessary technology inside a person's body is constantly collecting data?

Social media contains a potential treasure trove of information. It seems people’s first instinct nowadays is to reach for the smartphone while they witness a fight, traffic crash or crime, then log on to spill the details. The problem was trying to comb through all the selfies, pet portraits and other irrelevant information in a quick, cost-effective way.

Smaller businesses are frequent targets for cyber crimes for a simple reason -- they're easy targets.