As consultants to legal professionals, we here at Kraft Kennedy often have to deal with sensitive or private information or data. This often means something as simple as password protecting case privileged files or documents as they are emailed back and forth between opposing counsel or other parties.

I recently came across this issue for a client in the Support Practice who wanted to password protect some documents they had compressed and needed to email to co-counsel in the Far East. My first inclination was to recommend one of the tried and true file compression utilities, like WinZip or WinRAR. After all, Windows is good for compressing files, but doesn’t offer any of the more robust features that these utilities have, right?


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