3BCleanDocs: metadata cleaning for mobile professionals

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Scrub document metadata wherever you go. The 3BCleanDocs service provides protection for the Mobile Professional.

Not sure if the document you are emailing contains hidden sensitive information? Whether you simply forward an email that you have received, review and edit prior to forwarding, or attach a document to an email that you are sending, ensure that information contained in metadata such as track changes and comments are removed by using the 3BCleanDocs service.

Using this service is simplicity itself: sign up and protect yourself within minutes.

This service is primarily designed for mobile use and so is subject to restrictions.

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Complementary Offer

To help firms evaluate this service, subscribers who register for 3BCleanDocs will receive a complementary subscription period of one month.

At the end of the complementary period, the subscription will be fee-based at $10 per month, without any minimum contractual period.

Resources

ILTA Peer to Peer - The Often Overlooked Mobile Security Gap (pdf)
While the risks of inadvertent metadata disclosure are well understood within the legal industry, there is a security gap emerging via smartphones. Cathy Brode looks at the issue in ILTA's Peer to Peer quarterly journal December 2009

Document Metadata - the emergent Mobile Security Gap (pdf)
Mobile device security has received extensive coverage in analyst reports and industry surveys, this white paper looks at these reports and surveys, and how their findings relate to the mobile legal professional.

Mobile Device Usage and Document Security Survey (pdf)
The sophistication of today's mobile devices such as Blackberry, iPhone, PDAs and Netbooks now presents a practical and cost-effective alternative to laptops. Leading mobile devices can access internal systems and business applications, and enable the review, edit, and forwarding of documents. This October 2009 survey focused on understanding how these business applications and devices are being used.

Inadvertent Information Leakage via PDF (pdf)
Ensuring that metadata does not transfer from Word to PDF, can only be effectively guaranteed when it is automatically removed as part of the PDF generation process.