Tag: Unstructured Data

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…