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# Data Security and Privacy Audits: Steps to Protect Reports

  June 7, 2010

The Secure Times

 

 

 

 

 

 

This article appeared in the Spring 2010 issue of *The Secure Times*, the newsletter of the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law’s Privacy and Information Security Committee. The article discussed the application of attorney-client privilege and self-evaluative privilege, and suggested best practices to increase the chances that an audit report will be protected from disclosure. While a rigorous data security and privacy audit can identify and help a company to remedy vulnerabilities in its systems and policies, a written audit report can pose its own dangers if obtained by civil litigants or regulators seeking to build a case against the company.

 

 

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