According to European Commission Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden remain the EU frontrunners in the area of digitization. However, even they are faced with gaps in key areas: the uptake of advanced digital technologies such as AI and Big Data, remains below 30% and very far from the 2030 Digital Decade target of 75%; the widespread skill shortages, which are slowing down overall progress and lead to digital exclusion.

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According to a joint order signed on June 10, 2022, from the judicial departments of the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court, New York state attorneys will be required to complete at least one credit of cybersecurity, privacy, and data protection training as part of their continuing legal education (CLE) requirements. The new requirement will take effect on July 1, 2023, and may be of interest to cybersecurity, information governance, and legal discovery professionals operating in the eDiscovery ecosystem seeking both educational and evangelistic opportunities for increasing awareness and understanding of cybersecurity, privacy, and data protection challenges and considerations.

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According to a recent update from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), Ukrainian officials framed the August 9 attack in Crimea as the start of Ukraine’s counteroffensive in the south, suggesting that the Ukrainian military expects intense fighting in August and September that could decide the outcome of the next phase of the war.

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According to Christopher Weiler, CEO of KLDiscovery Inc, “The second quarter of 2022 was a very good quarter for KLDiscovery. Despite the headwinds we are experiencing from a weakening U.S. economy, as reflected by two consecutive quarters of declines in GDP in the first half of 2022, we continue to deliver solid revenue. We achieved the best quarter of Nebula revenue in our history, up 27% from the first quarter of 2022 as our investments in the platform and sales team are yielding measurable results. We increased the number of Nebula clients and Nebula matters in Q2 2022 vs. Q1 2022 by 8% and 10% respectively."

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According to Kiwi Camara, Co-Founder and CEO of DISCO, “We are excited to see a growing number of customers transitioning to our cloud-native solution as we increased our customer count to 1,255, an increase of 27% year over year. With the launch of topic clustering with automatic indexing - a highly anticipated innovation in our software - we continue to improve our full-stack solution to give our customers the necessary tools to transform the practice of law.”

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According to ENISA, this threat landscape report analyzed a total of 623 ransomware incidents across the EU, the United Kingdom, and the United States for a reporting period from May 2021 to June 2022. The data was gathered from governments' and security companies' reports, from the press, from verified blogs, and in some cases using related sources from the dark web. As one of the most devastating types of cybersecurity attacks over the last decade, ransomware has grown to impact organizations of all sizes across the globe.

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According to a recent update from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), Russian forces are likely using Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Enerhodar to play on Western fears of a nuclear disaster in Ukraine, likely in an effort to degrade Western will to provide military support to a Ukrainian counteroffensive.

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According to HaystackID Chief Information Security Officer and President of Forensics, John Wilson, “When it’s a ‘bet the company’ matter, MEDAL allows professionals to gain the most insight into the activity and usage of mobile devices when it matters the most. It’s incredibly powerful, and HaystackID is one of only a few legal service providers authorized to deliver this offering.”

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The latest monthly update from the Bureau of Competition’s Premerger Notification Office (PNO) regarding Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act transactions for July 2022 notes 192 reported transactions. This is the third-highest number of monthly reported transactions in the month of July between FY 2001 and FY 2022. However, it is significantly lower than the reported 343 July transactions in the previous fiscal year of 2021.

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According to a recent update from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), the Russian Defense Ministry is likely trying to assuage distress that Ukraine’s effective use of the US HIMARS is causing Russian military personnel and milbloggers with inaccurate claims of destroying HIMARS launchers. Ukrainian HIMARS strikes have prompted many milbloggers and military correspondents to express concern over the effectiveness of air defense systems and the threats to Russian logistics, and these strikes are likely demoralizing Russian servicemen on the ground.

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