Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
3. Validation and authentication Once the required information has been collected, it still needs to be validated and authenticated. Validation is the ability to determine whether the query was accurate and complete. It must in fact return all “California employees” as they were defined, so the report is complete and “correct.” Authentication, a legal construct,…
What is IT to do? In many enterprises, the challenge of dealing with structured data has created dangerous gaps between information policies — driven by business, legal and compliance issues — and the information practices of IT. In most organizations, the tissue connecting information policies and IT practices is made up of little more than…
by David White, partner, Seyfarth Shaw LLP & CGOC faculty member E-discovery has been a hot topic on everybody’s radar for a number of years now. The past several years have shown exponential growth in the number of high-profile e-discovery sanction cases due to missteps. Headline avoidance: preserving and collecting data The resulting headlines have…
Whatever happened to the promise of a paperless world? Remember that? Computers, everyone said, would replace paper thereby preventing injury to forests and fingers alike. But, like flying cars, digital-only documents seem to be more fantasy than futuristic since companies continue to cling to paper documents even after carefully storing digitalized doppelgangers. There is only…
Business teams find collaborative tools such as Microsoft’s SharePoint invaluable for tasks such as sharing documents and ideas, maintaining version control of work product, and creating everything from new products to document workflows. However, as we saw with the exponential growth of email in the early 2000s, in the absence of sound policies and controls…
Editor’s Note: EMC markets solutions aimed at solving the problems presented by ediscovery and legal holds on electronic information. Our goal in publishing this article is to provide information you may find useful and thought-provoking. It is not intended as an endorsement of EMC products, services or technology. Cloud computing — or computing as a…
According to analyst firm Gartner, data governance is the way to mitigate ediscovery problems. In fact, they predict that companies without data governance strategy and technology in place will spend one third more on ediscovery than their peers (Cooperation is Key for Managing Ediscovery, March 2010). Gartner rightly identifies data volume and IT environmental complexity…
While it has always been vital for entities handling financial information — account identifiers, investment records, account balances, transaction fees, payment card information, credit reports, and the like — to take appropriate privacy and data security precautions, never before has it been quite the pressing concern that it is today. The rapid deployment of innovative…
Corporate litigation is often inevitable but preparation for that inevitability is controllable. So why so often during corporate litigation have I attended a meeting where legal and IT teams are introducing themselves across the table? The truth is that successful companies have embraced the brotherly bond that IT and legal departments share in this age…
Managing the details of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) pose many logistical and technological issues that require the insight of the CIO. Due diligence demands interested investors be able to examine all pertinent documents before they decide whether to acquire or merge with a company. Traditionally, these interested parties would go to a physical space to…