Heartbleed

The Heartbleed bug has attracted considerable attention, deservedly so. Particularly in light of the law firm security concerns recently highlighted in the New York Times, law firms and other consumers of e-discovery services indubitably worry about the vulnerability to this bug of data stored with their vendors.

The Heartbleed bug affects applications written with the OpenSSL cryptographic software library, allowing access to data stored in the memory of systems using defective versions of the software. No part of the Backstop suite of offerings makes or has ever made use of the OpenSSL library. Backstop servers are therefore unaffected by the Heartbleed bug.

Clients and prospective clients with questions in this connection should feel free to contact our Director of Technology, Brian Merrell.