Information Governance Benchmark Report in Global 1,000 Companies
[ Source: Compliance, Governance, and Ovesight Council (CGOC) ]
October 2010-
Many have talked about the gap between legal and IT, or the importance of records management to enabling more rigorous discovery or information disposal, but no one has measured how big the gap is or assessed what stakeholders on all sides believe is necessary or possible to do in order to close the gap. CGOC, in concert with EDRM and the new Information Management Reference Model project, decided to assess the gap and how companies ...
Developing a Defensible Disposal Strategy - IT Teams Shouldn't Have to Make a Billion Choices
[ Source: PSS Systems ]
September 2010-
Too Much Data, Not Enough Value
It's commonly understood that data not subject to legal or regulatory requirement and without any business value should be disposed, and doing so is getting more important every day:
• 40 percent or more of corporate data is not subject »»to a specific legal duty and has no business value
• Corporate data volume grew by about 50 percent »»last year, while budgets grew by 0 percent
• IT spend averages 3.5 percent of revenues – data »»...
Ten Questions to Identify Compliance Risks When Sharing Information
[ Source: Brainloop ]
September 2010-
Corporate and regulatory compliance policies have forced companies to ensure that information flows are documented, auditable, and highly secure. Yet in order to conduct their business, companies must share sensitive information outside the firewall, introducing serious potential information risk. How can companies enforce security policy and cost-effectively meet compliance objectives when documents must be shared with partners, investors, board members, and others outside the enterprise?
This white paper by Cheryl Klein, CPA, CISA, ...
Understanding and Preparing for eDiscovery
[ Source: B&L Associates, Inc. ]
October 2008-
Business history will note 2006 as a watershed year for how banks and other companies tackled management of their generated electronic data. Marked changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) created the buzzword “eDiscovery,” causing companies to scramble to determine whether they were effectively managing their electronically stored data.