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 ...

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?

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How To Manage Effectively Operational Risk For Basel II, Solvency II And Arrow [ Source: easy2comply ]

September 2008- Operational risk exists everywhere in the business environment. It is the oldest risk facing any commercial institution and in particular banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions. Any financial institution will face operational risk long before it decides on its first market trade or credit transaction. Of all the different types of risks financial institutions face, operational risk can be the most devastating and at the same time, the most difficult to anticipate. Its appearance ...

The Basics On Handling E-mail Attachments In e-Discovery [ Source: Fios, Inc. ]

October 2009- In the last few years, courts have become more familiar with the underlying technology of e-mail attachments. Arguments courts accepted only three years ago for mishandling attachments –- vendor errors during collection or processing, mistakes with e-mail archiving systems –- will not hold water in many courts today. Other than document review, nothing in e-discovery is as costly or time-consuming as an order to re-produce a bad production. It is imperative for the producing and ...

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.

Time, Risk, And Cost In Electroinc Discovery [ Source: Orange Legal Technologies ]

February 2009- Balancing time, risk, and cost in the conduct of electronic discovery continues to be one of the greatest challenges faced by legal professionals today. Technology advances, laws which further define electronically stored information (ESI), and current economic conditions all serve to increase both the importance and complexity of meeting this challenge of balance. How does one best approach the conduct of the key electronic discovery tasks of evaluating (analytics), processing, and reviewing ESI in preparation ...

Considering Third-Generation Discovery: Two Approaches For Evaluating eDiscovery Offerings [ Source: Orange Legal Technologies ]

December 2008- With the many products and services available in the marketplace today, the need to be able to uniformly contrast and compare electronic discovery offerings continues to grow. Even though more and more vendors are providing pricing comparison tools that can help in considering their offerings, there continues to be a need for comparison frameworks to help electronic discovery professionals systematically evaluate offerings beyond pricing and through the lens of additional factors to include capability, delivery ...

Digital Signature Solution [ Source: Arx ]

September 2007- As the traditional “paper-based” world gives way to digital documentation and transactions, enterprises are demanding innovative solutions for digitally signing and authenticating such documents, files, and forms with iron-clad protection against forgery. Solutions must guarantee non-repudiation and promise the same level of security and trust that exists with conventional documentation. At the same time, such a solution should be simple to use, easy to deploy and offer a rapid return on investment (ROI).