Now more than ever before there is an increased demand for employees to share and collaborate on documents with people inside and outside of their respective organizations. For this reason, organizations of all shapes and sizes are turning to enterprise file sync and share (EFSS) solutions to provide secure cloud-based file sharing.
A recent survey
Software as a Service (SaaS) adoption has continued to climb with each passing year. Major contributors to this have been ease of deployment, improved productivity and lower cost of ownership. Furthermore, organizations have begun to reason that SaaS applications can be more secure than their premises-based counterparts. Despite these facts, a recent survey of 176
After the terrorist attack in Orlando, Florida, early this month, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) has been discussed quite a bit. The ECPA, a law which took effect in 1986, limits the government’s access to electronic communications and other information. Due to the advancement in technology over the past 30 years, Congress finds itself
A recent Advice from Counsel study sponsored by FTI Technology, entitled “The State of Information Governance in Corporations,” found data security to be the top driver for information governance initiatives. The purpose of the study was to better understand the health and success of information governance programs within corporations. The respondents included approximately 25 in-house
In an information governance model, there are business-focused components and aspects, and there are technology-focused components and aspects. Information Governance isn’t just technology driven, nor is it solely business driven. It is a partnership between business and technology. Both must be present in the program.
The Business Side
Diving into the business side, the first
Many organizations are considering an update to their existing SharePoint environment in 2016. This is largely due to new functionalities being offered with SharePoint 2016, especially if the organization is still running SharePoint 2010 or later. With that said, a well thought out migration strategy is key to the success of this project.
Let’s consider
The purpose of an information governance program is to provide insight into information that is the most valuable to the organization, while minimizing associated risks and costs. Until recently, organizations focused less on the latter and heavily on gaining insight into the most valuable information. The reason for this change is largely due to the
The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) outlines a series of amendments to the data protection and data privacy requirements applicable to all companies with European customers, regardless of where the company’s headquarters reside.
Some of the proposed amendments include:
There is no secret sauce to achieving information governance nirvana. The reality is someone must take ownership of an organization’s information governance program. The industry as a whole has been discussing that organizations appoint a chief information governance officer (CIGO) or its equivalent, to lead information governance efforts. The title is not important—the skill set
An annual audit conducted by the U.S. Government Accountability Office of the Fiscal Service Bureau, identified (9) nine new information security weaknesses in the U.S. Treasury Department’s information systems that are used to manage sensitive data in connection with federal debt.
It was further reported that although these weaknesses aren’t considered to be significant, the