About Robert Blatt

Contributing author, Robert M. Blatt, is the founder of EID and provides the “technology” subject matter expertise to EID’s clients who are in the process of wrangling their content into enterprise-wide electronic content management systems (ECM). Robert is highly regarded in the content management industry for his many years working with the US and international standard setting bodies. He has led many efforts to develop standards in the ECM industry, including most recently the best practices and standards surrounding trusted ECM systems, giving definition to what it means to have a trusted content management system. Having confidence that what you put into the system is what you retrieved, is afterall, often a crucial piece of the electronic content management puzzle.

Reducing the potential impact of Ransomware affecting critical records

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 !!). 

Reducing the potential impact of Ransomware affecting critical records2021-07-14T12:43:33-07:00

International Institute of Municipal Clerks (IIMC) Webinars for Trustworthy Records Management

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, [...]

International Institute of Municipal Clerks (IIMC) Webinars for Trustworthy Records Management2021-07-14T10:00:42-07:00

Are Cloud Storage Technologies Reliable for Mission Critical Records?

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 [...]

Are Cloud Storage Technologies Reliable for Mission Critical Records?2020-03-11T16:31:52-07:00

Securing And Protecting Your Electronic Records

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 [...]

Securing And Protecting Your Electronic Records2020-02-05T09:58:31-08:00

Retention Plans and Structured Data

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, [...]

Retention Plans and Structured Data2017-03-05T12:26:42-08:00

The state of PG&E records not criminal

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 [...]

The state of PG&E records not criminal2017-01-04T17:13:06-08:00

EID Works with Association to Solve PDF Search Issue

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 [...]

EID Works with Association to Solve PDF Search Issue2017-01-04T17:13:07-08:00

Don’t Be Like PG&E…Choose to Keep Better Records

Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), a California utility, may well find itself featured in those "don't be like" commercials. You know the ones where that guy makes poor decisions (such as choosing cable television instead of the competitor) that leads to a series of disasters. In PG&E's case, rather than waking up in a ditch, [...]

Don’t Be Like PG&E…Choose to Keep Better Records2017-01-04T17:13:07-08:00

Storing and Managing Your Official Electronic Records Seminar

EID Principal, Robert Blatt and US District Courts, Steve Levenson were presenters at the annual conference for the County Recorders’ Association of California and California Association of Clerks and Election Officials. The seminar participants learned the best strategies to meet the goal for managing and storing of electronic records. One strategy is to implement standard [...]

Storing and Managing Your Official Electronic Records Seminar2017-01-04T17:13:07-08:00
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