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 [...]
How often have you found yourself looking at the PDF on the screen and scratching your head wondering why a word or phrase you are looking at on the monitor or printout just can’t be found in the PDF. Well you are not alone, and in fact very recently EID, Inc. identified the issue during [...]
The authenticity of electronic records is becoming as important as capturing and maintaining electronic content. Questions have been arising in lawsuits and criminal prosecutions about whether electronic records are reliable and trustworthy.
EID principal Robert Blatt and Senior Legal Consultant Jo Dunlap were joined by Steve Levenson to jointly present a Academy session on “Storing and Managing Official Electronic Records” The focus of the presentation was to assist annual conference attendees understand how to best approach tackling the topic of “knowing where your records are.”
If employees in your organization are spending more and more time searching for documents in the electronic or “virtual” storage spaces; or maybe they are getting creative to find that critical report yet still coming up short, you may want to put that dog on a leash and gain some control over the organizational information.
When the evidence of debt is challenged in court, many credit card companies are unable to meet the burden of “authenticating” their records – showing that the debt claimed to be owed them is accurately portrayed by the ESI records being introduced into evidence.
