Almost every organization already have an extensive volume of unstructured content stored on an array of different storage environments. And almost every organization feel that they have good control over these records and that these records are under proper retention control. The challenge is that when many organizations decide to store these records on [...]
While many organizations have already migrated to a digital or enterprise records management environment, there is still a significant number of organizations that have not done so following industry or ISO best practices and/or standards. These best practices and standards provide guidance related to ensuring that electronic records are not only stored safely, but [...]
Are you ready for challenges to authenticity and the weight that should be accorded ESI in your case? At no time since the inception of the rules of evidence has the question of foundation and authentication of evidence been more ripe for challenge than in today’s technologically advanced era. We have an evidentiary [...]
The volume of these attacks has been substantially increasing over the past several years and months, many that are so destructive that they have been raising significant concerns at the state and national levels—especially for organizations such as government agencies, healthcare facilities, and banks, along with private organizations (no one is immune to these attacks !!).
The International Institute of Municipal Clerks (IIMC), with over 10,000 members, recently hosted two webinars related to Trustworthy content/records management for its members. There were over 200 participants in both webinars, each qualifying the participant to receive continuing education credits.The first session titled "Securing and Protecting your Mission Critical Records" was held on May 6, [...]
Recently a research paper authored by Luciana Duranti titled "Preservation in the Cloud: What will a Trustworthy Preservation Systems Look Like in the Future?" was distributed to the ISO TC/171 SC2 WG11 Trustworthy Storage Sub-system Working group. While this research paper is very well written many issues are not addressed, and as a forensic [...]
Over the past few years, many organizations have been attacked by data breaches and ransomware. The volume of these attacks, especially those that are successful, has increased to a level that has raised significant concern especially for organizations such as government agencies, health facilities and banks.An issue that almost every group encounters is that the [...]
Change management is a set of steps design to modify the way an organization performs its core business processes and can be either technology-driven or non-technology driven designed to minimize existing work interruption.
How does your organization manage retention plans requiring purging of information including structured data? You might answer that question by saying: What is structured data? I don’t know We just keep all our structured data Does your current retention plan apply to structured data? Again, you might answer that question by saying: Of course, [...]
Earlier this month Pacific Gas & Electric Company was found by a jury not guilty of 6 counts of knowingly failing to keep accurate records. The company was convicted on several other counts including the failure to gather information on its pipelines and on obstructing a federal investigation into the 2010 blast that killed eight [...]
