Our firm’s elephant icon is a nod to The Blind Men and the Elephant, the familiar, age-old parable for how we often do not see the big picture, but instead only the parts we directly encounter. And so it goes for organizations’ data. Individual
Information Governance Group
Information Governance Group, LLC is a specialized organization providing advisory services on information governance, focusing on compliant data retention, data management, defensible disposition, and data security. The group assists clients in creating legally validated records retention schedules, implementing information management policies, and preparing for data security compliance and incident response. Their expertise includes helping organizations manage information risks and costs while maximizing information value. The firm maintains ISO 27001 certification, reflecting adherence to international standards for information security management. Their blog, Information Bytes, discusses practical applications of information governance in areas such as data privacy, security, retention, and litigation discovery.
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Why govern our information? Reason #3: “Your” data may actually belong to others … and you’re responsible to take care of it.
By Peter Sloan
As you toss and turn in bed, you picture yourself on a strange playing field with other athletes swirling around you. You have absolutely no idea what sport you are playing, nor a clue what the rules are. It all…
Why govern our information? Reason #4: Your business data is in others’ custody … but you’re still responsible for it.
By Peter Sloan
If you’re old enough, you’ll remember a time when businesses actually kept their own information (cue my adult children to roll their eyes). How quaint. We no longer keep most of our information – providers do that for us. We…
Why govern our information? Reason #5: Bad information results in bad decisions.
By Peter Sloan
“Garbage in, garbage out” – we know that already, right? Well … what we know about information quality and what we do are not always in sync. Just for kicks, consider information quality through the lens of the industrial quality movement.
Looking down from…
Why govern our information? Reason #6: It’s OK to destroy business data. Really.
By Peter Sloan
It lingers on – that vaguely guilty feeling that there’s something sanctionable, even illegal, about routinely destroying business data. That’s nonsense. It is well-settled United States law that a company may indeed dispose of business data, if done in good faith, pursuant to…
Why govern our information? Reason #7: Merely adding more storage and more tools won’t solve your data problems
By Peter Sloan
As the information tide relentlessly rises, many organizations simply see an IT problem, to be fixed with a purely IT solution – more storage capacity, more tools, or both. But merely adding more storage is a reaction, not a strategy. And adding technology…
Why govern our information? Reason #8: It can build – or bust – your brand
By Peter Sloan
The “business case” for information governance often focuses solely on quantifying specific costs for data management and exposures for data security and ediscovery. Number crunching is of course important, but it misses something bigger, more strategic, and ultimately more crucial…
Why govern our information? Reason #9: Unnecessary business data multiplies data security exposures
By Peter Sloan
Having too much data causes problems beyond needless storage costs, workplace inefficiencies, and uncontrolled litigation expenses. Keeping data without a legal or business reason also exacerbates data security exposures. To put it bluntly, businesses that tolerate troves of unnecessary data are playing cybersecurity roulette…
Why govern our information? Reason #10: It’s a when, not if, world for data breaches
By Peter Sloan
Being a CISO is a tough gig. The perpetual deluge of news items on hack after hack, breach after breach, has finally conveyed that data security is an imperative for all companies, large and small. But the perception still lingers that the Chief Information Security Officer (or her…
Why govern our information? Reason #11: Thousands of federal and state records retention laws apply to your company
By Peter Sloan
Dr. Stephen Covey reminded us that “important” is not the same thing as “urgent.” Records retention reminds us that important is not the same thing as exciting. I get it – records retention schedules are boring. But the fact remains that…