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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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.”
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